On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 14:52 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> JohnS wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 20:33 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >> I have a strange problem on one machine where eth0 gets killed when I add
> >> a virtual interface. It's got something to do with the NIC ordering or
> >> with the xen network script having a problem with multiple NICs and
> >> virtual interfaces. I could need some help/comments on this.
> >>
> >> Some history:
> >> I added a NIC (chip identifies as Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> >> RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet) to a Dell R200 server.
> >> CentOS 5.3 with Xen 3.3.1 (gitco repo).
> > ----
> > see this:
> > http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
> >
> > This is a known issue with all Poweredge Servers. It will give you an
> > explanation and workaround for it.
>
> I don't think there is anything unique to Dells about this. The kernel
> essentially randomizes device naming on everything. Dell just took the
> trouble to document it.
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Also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491432
Seems to apply to Kais case.
You *must* specify the HWADDR field in the ifcfg-* files in order to
have persistent ethernet naming. Was the way I done it on dell hardware
and it states that on the Bug Report.
JohnStanley
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