Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 17:58 +0200 schrieb JohnS: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:12 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > >The eth? names are assigned in more or less random order at bootup > > > > Not exactly "random" but not always as expected:) > > http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf > --- > Nice paper by Michael.. What I do is disable all the nics in the bios > via console rdir of drac 3 -5. Enable one at a time to install then > enable the other integrated nics. Then have the the other nic hardware > installed. Can also be done remote or local. It eases the frustration. > Then you have them in the order you want. > > John > We use spacewalk integraed cobbler for installation it takes the mac addresses as input for nic configuration and cares about that problem in a nice way. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos