On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Maura Simas wrote: > > 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. I think I would insert the cable into the NIC that is going to be recognised as eth0 for the duration of the install, and fix the configuration in the %post section of your ks file. If you are going to do a lot, you might be able to do something at the subnet level. You can also exercise some control by having modules only for the NIC you want to use for the install in your initrd, but AFAIK if you have two NICs that use the same driver then your hands are tied. -- Please, reply only to the list.
