Re: Kickstart with multiple eth devices

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Correction to my own post: I know it's not kickstart that's doing the
renaming, it's the kernel that's booting up the system.
On Feb 23, 2015 4:34 PM, "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a Dell server that has two built-in ethernet devices. When I
> kickstart the machine, they are correctly identified as eth0 and eth1
> (correctly meaning they correspond to the physical device ports 1 and 2). I
> need a third one and want that to come up as eth2. After adding the
> hardware, kickstart now fails because for some reason it goes through a
> rename process where it makes the newly added card eth1 (or eth0, I
> forgot). Is there a way to stop this rename process so kickstart correctly
> uses the physical hardware the way they are, meaning physical port 1 =
> eth0, port 2 = eth1, and the additional ethernet card then becomes eth2?
>
> Should I be using the device's MAC address when I set the 'network' option
> in the kickstart file? So instead of 'network --device=eth0' I make it
> 'network -device=aa;bb:cc:dd:eee:ff' ?
>
>
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