RHEL4U5 and NIC flipping

[David Bear]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:34:09PM -0400, clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> Yes but if your changing the mac and the device then its not static, its
> changing. I need eth0 to always be on the same port (port0) (vlan taggging,
> security reasons etc) so when I update/install and port0 is now being
> detected as eth1, my network is screwed. I need a way to say  port0 == eth0
> no matter what order they are detected in.
> 
> ifrename does it, but it requires stopping a bunch of stuff, running it and
> then restarting a bunch of stuff. Adding the command into the
> /etc/rc.sysinit file doesn't work (the interfaces appear to be already
> initialized).

No I see why RHEL was flipping my enets in the dell. Same nic, e1000. 

I thought I was doing something wrong with the configuration.


> 
> Adding the MACADDR option is supposed to set the mac from what I can tell,
> but that isnt the case on rhel 5 on my e1000 nic.
> 
> On 5/3/07, Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com> wrote:
> >
> >clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> >> I know at a minimum Dell, IBM and HP have the issue. I would expect its
> >> actually a broadcom and/or intel nic (driver ?) issue. I have used
> >ifrename
> >> in the past to accomplish this, but it seems with rhel5 ifrename doesnt
> >> work
> >> on boot. Is there a way to static-map a MAC to a particular interface in
> >> rhel ?
> >
> >I have a similar problem on the Dell 2950.  I add the HWADDR and change
> >the DEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> >
> >DEVICE=eth1
> >BOOTPROTO=static
> >HWADDR=00:13:72:65:DB:29
> >IPADDR=10.207.52.220
> >NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> >ONBOOT=yes
> >TYPE=Ethernet
> >
> >> Regards.
> >>
> >> On 5/3/07, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) <Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca>
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am in the midst of building several new servers using RHEL4U4.  I had
> >>> not yet released them to production use and saw that U5 was available.
> >>> I thought what better time to do it than right now when I have the
> >>> ability to deal with anything untoward.
> >>>
> >>> Well, the untoward comes in the form of the nics getting
> >flipped.  After
> >>> the update, I rebooted the machines and none of them came back online.
> >>> I had to make all of the eth0's eth1's and vice versa.  This has
> >>> occurred on HP and Dell servers.  Has anyone else seen this?  Just
> >>> curious.
> >>>
> >>> Regards, Marshall
> >>>
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