----- Original Message ----
> From: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thu, April 15, 2010 1:20:45 AM
> Subject: Re: How Do I ...
>
>
;-)
> in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were
> named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1 and so on.
> Then
> came the inbuilt nics
> Then came the PCIx built nics
> Then came the PCI-e
> built nics
> OUCH! ;-)
Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't unplug because they're plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :)
I had an awful time trying to install a bunch of servers via PXE, the server booted from one nic, then tried to configure eth0 which was ANOTHER nic which was (of course) connected to a different built in switch and the installation failed because it couldn't access the kickstart file.
We had to trunk the 4 internal switches for the install, then we had to look into the switch's management to see which card was in what port, then modify the ifcfg-ethX to configure each one of the NICs with the right IP
Fer
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