Network interface detection and enumeration on PE6850

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:45:58AM +0200, Joris Ludo wrote:
> Executing names-eths-redhat on machine 1 adds the correct
> HWADDR= lines to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
> scripts and in the right order (onboard first if that is the
> right order). On machine 2 these HWADDR= lines are not
> necessary to get it right. But now 2 of the 6 network interfaces
> on machine 1 do not come up after a reboot. Manually starting
> these network interfaces with ifup succeeds. With
> /etc/init.d/network restart all network interfaces are stopped
> but two have to be manually started with ifup.

Very odd.  What do /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* look like?


> Is there a way to force the detection of network interfaces
> to be identical on these two machines?

name-eths-redhat should have been sufficient.  I'm worried that it's
not.

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Matt Domsch
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