RHEL4 U5 and NICs order/naming

[Matthew Geier]

wolf2k5 wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:
>   
>> Going from RHEL4 to RHEL5 is hardly "applying a new kernel". This problem
>> likely won't recur until you upgrade to RHEL 6 ;)
>>     
>
> We're still on RHEL4, we just went from U4 to U5, not to RHEL5.
>   

 I've not tried this, but Redhat appears to allow you to bind interfaces 
to MAC addresses (hardware device, Bind to MAC address). This would make 
the network configuration independant of the initialization order of the 
network devices.
(Looking at a RHEL 5 machine I have handy, it looks like binding to the 
MAC is now the default)