On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:05:43 +0100 Gary Smith <gary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > HI All, > > These is an off topic question/s but I am not sure what forum I should > be asking these questions of. > > 1. What forum I should be sending this request too. > 2. If someone knows the answer and has the time to tell please do so. > > We have a fedora 5 box we ship with multiple NIC cards. Some up to 6 for > special business centre applications. > > When these are are mixture of onboard MB Nics and PCI Nics, the boot > sequence the eth number specified for then on first boot changes on > subsequent boots. They effectively get mixed up. > > We used to use RH 7.2 and it did not do this, every system built > detected PCI devices in same order. Since Fedora 2 (cannot tell about in > between versions) this PCI detection sequence has been random for Nic > cards. > > I cannot believe fedora is meant to do this since if you built a fedora > firewall with 2+ Nics and installed it, if the Nics get swaped on boot, > then we cannot have someone swapping cables. > > Does anyone know or had any problems like this. We get round it by > writing code to detect the NIC cards once settled and make sure this > sequence is kept on all subsequent boots. > > We are currently using stock Fedora 5 - updated with 2.6.17 kernel. > Earlier kernels did same. > > Thanks > > Gary You need to use one of the utilities that renames interfaces based on mac addresses. Fedora/Redhat does this via ifcfg-ethX scripts that are managed by the network configuration GUI. Other distro's use udev or iftab. _______________________________________________ Vlan mailing list Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.candelatech.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan
