> Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't unplug because they're plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :) ok, granted: 2 (OUCH) Jobst On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:32:06AM -0700, Fernando Gleiser (fergleiser@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > ----- 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! ;-) > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Note to DOS users: UNIX is a lot more FUN - Peter Norton | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos