RHEL4U5 and NIC flipping

[Stephen Carville]

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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