PE 1950 NIC order switching problem fixed by BIOS 1.3.7?

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Faris Raouf wrote:
> Um...can someone clear something up for me? Is this related to the issue
> where eth0 is the nic numbered 1, and eth1 is the nic numbered 0 (on the
> back panel) or is this something else entirely?

My post did refer to this issue, yes.

But since you are running Centos-4.5 your eth0 should already be physical port 
1 and your eth1 port 2. This changed (to many peoples "surprise") between 
kernels 2.6.9-42xxx and -55xxx

/Peter

> I'm only asking because I 
> don't want to update the bios at some point in the future and find I lose
> contact with the server.
>
> Or is it something else entirely that I've not noticed?
>
> I'm using Centos 4 (4.5) 64bit with Virtuozzo on a 1950.
>
> Faris.
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