PE 1950 NIC order switching problem fixed by BIOS 1.3.7?

[Dirk]

On Ubuntu you have iftab, which allows you to specify the how the kernel 
should name the interfaces based on the mac address.
The file /etc/iftab basically has a list of macs with the interface name 
you want to associate:
EXAMPLE
       eth0    mac 00:12:79:59:8D:38
       eth1    mac 00:0B:CD:5C:9E:2A

This way it does not matter what interface the bios detects first.

Kind regards,
Dirk.
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:31:24 +0200 From: Peter Kjellstrom 
> <cap at nsc.liu.se> Subject: Re: PE 1950 NIC order switching problem 
> fixed by BIOS 1.3.7? To: linux-poweredge at dell.com Message-ID: 
> <200707051031.28665.cap at nsc.liu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset="iso-8859-1" On Thursday 05 July 2007, Simon Gao wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am wondering if the NIC order switching problem with PE1950/2950 has
>> > been fixed by BIOS update 1.3.7?
>>     
>
> While not exactly an answer to your question, both current RHEL5 and RHEL4 has 
> the issue "fixed" in OS. This does not require you to use any patches or 
> work-arounds.
>
> /Peter
>
>   
>> > I am planning to re-start installing Xen on PE1950 machine. However, I
>> > am reluctant to use the patches and workaround methods. With BIOS 1.3.7,
>> > is any such patch or workaround still needed?
>> >
>> > Simon
>>