[Gllug] pci ethernet ordering

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 17:34 +0000, gllug at dormon.com wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> Just a quickie, I stuck some new dual gig nic's in few dell 1650's 
> yesterday, everything was going well and then in a moment of madness I 
> thought "I know, why don't I run kudzu, and let it sort it out"

One of the less endearing features of Linux.
The numbering depends on the order in which the PCI bus is scanned at
boot time. So can change with versions of Linux.

I thought that there was a thread on this on the Beowulf list recently,
but can't find it.

On a RH system you can put the Mac address into ifcfg-ethx
as HWADDR=xxxxxxx
though this results, as you say, in nameif being used.


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