That's a fine work-around for already installed systems, but what about during kickstart? Same OS, Same hardware, different arch shouldn't mean eth0 and eth1 get swapped. Either i686 and x86_64 should both use ACPI for enumeration or neither should; this would maintain consistency. /Brian/ On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:28, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote: > Just an idea - perhaps you can use the mac address to order interfaces. I > just checked on a couple of Dell servers, and eth1's mac address is > consistently eth0 - 1. > > Grisha > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Brian Long wrote: > > > Has anyone else noticed that the x86_64 kernel enumerates the PCI bus > > differently than the i686 kernel? We have an Opteron platform where the > > first ethernet port shows up as "eth0" with the i686 kernel and "eth1" > > with the x86_64 kernel. Red Hat claims this is because the x86_64 > > kernel uses ACPI and the i686 kernel does not. Since we want to be able > > to install these Opteron systems with 32-bit or 64-bit Linux AND have > > the Ethernet interface be eth0 at all times, any clues on how we'd > > accomplish this? > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133150 > > > > /Brian/ > > -- > > Brian Long | | | > > IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. > > Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. > > Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > > -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s
