Problems with our NICs

[Maura Simas <msimas@xxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure if I am posting this to the correct list or not but here 
goes.  We have a cluster of DL380s we are setting up using RedHat 7.3.  Our 
problem is that the PCI Bus is probed first (these are gigabit connections 
of which we have two) while the internal nics are probed last (these are 
tg3 nics with 100mb connection also 2).  We have one system set up as the 
headwhile the other three are set up as nodes.  We are kickstarting the 
nodes using DHCP.  Our problem is that eth0 is one of the gigabit cards but 
we want our DHCP requests to go over our first internal nic (tg3).  On the 
head node this isnt a problem, we simply edit the modules.conf file and 
move things around.



Our problem is the nodes that we want to kickstart using DHCP.  They send 
their requests via eth0 which is a problem since after editing the 
modules.conf file on the head node eth0 is tg3&..so, the nodes never get 
their IP addresses.



My question is: Is there anyway we can work around this with the 
software?  Any and all suggestions would be most helpful since I have been 
working on this for a week now.



Maura.