You can specify the Hardware (MAC) address in the network config
(ifcfg-ethn) for each card to prevent this from happening, especially if
the cards use the same driver....
P.
Doug Zeman wrote:
> you can use netdevice=(eth*) and/or ksdevice=(eth*) in the kernel
> command line when kickstarting.... you can also set the MAC in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* to whatever port you want...
> ... thanks
>
> - doug
>
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> sudo Yang wrote:
>
>> One of my systems have two onboard NICs which uses the e100 and e1000
>> drivers (yes, the interfaces are not the same). This system kickstart
>> fine with CentOS 3.x. I recently tried to rekick it with CentOS 4.x
>> but was unsuccessful in doing so. When kicking CentOS 4.1, the
>> interfaces are swapped around, i.e. eth0 becomes eth1 and eth1 becomes
>> eth0 (as described at
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104888957013124&w=2).
>> Is there a way to fix the interface during kickstart?
>>
>> Unfortunately, because we have so many different types of systems,
>> simply swapping the cables is not a good idea because it complicates
>> management.
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