You can also use ks=MAC_ADDR on the boot line to use that particular interface for the Kickstart. -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Harry Hoffman Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:41 AM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: Specify MAC address in kickstart While I'm not 100% sure, I think you may be able to accomplish this via boot parameters 'man bootparam' shows that ethernet devices can be assigned based upon IO and IRQ: ether=irq,iobase[,param_1[,...param_8]],name ether=0,0,eth1 This would, of course, require you to know the io address and the interrupt but it sounds doable. If you decide to go this route I'd be curious to hear how it works. Cheers, Harry Jason Kohles wrote: > On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Vimal Kumar wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I had a query from a customer who has four network interfaces in his >> server and while doing a kickstart, he want interfaces with >> particular MAC addresses get assigned the name eth0, eth1 etc.. >> >> ie.. He wants the interface with MAC '00:14:5E:B3:56:F4' be eth0, >> interface with MAC '00:14:5E:A7:0B:B8' be eth1 and so on.. >> >> I was only able to locate the directives for the 'network' section in >> kickstart, specified below. Are there any directives available to >> configure MAC addresses or is there a work around for this. >> > The only way to do configuration that kickstart can't do directly, is > to write the configuration files yourself from a %post script > > %post > cat <<END > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > HWADDR= 00:14:5E:B3:56:F4 > IPADDR=192.168.0.1 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > ONBOOT=yes > END > > cat <<END > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > HWADDR= 00:14:5E:A7:0B:B8 > IPADDR=192.168.1.1 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > ONBOOT=yes > END > > --Jason Kohles > email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.jasonkohles.com/ > "A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
