PE 1950 NIC order switching problem fixed by BIOS 1.3.7?

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
> 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

It shouldn't have, as the ifcfg-ethX files all have HWADDR= lines
which should have meant it doesn't matter what the kernel names them,
they'll get renamed due to the HWADDR lines.

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Matt Domsch
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