Is there any way to have SystemConfigurator configure the NIC that is actually used as eth0?
Secondarily, FC5 uses files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts named ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 to enable or disable interfaces at boot, via ONBOOT=yes|no... not sure if SC is fiddling them or not. Some of the target systems have onboard 10/100 (forcedeth) and a Gbit PCI (e1000) and others have onboard Gbit (forcedeth). We want to ue Gbit in all cases. The UYOK initrd has e1000 and forcedeth drivers. On the systems with the PCI card, the e1000 PCI card gets used for the autoinstall, but SystemConfigurator configures it as eth1 (and the onboard forcedeth as eth0) and leaves eth0 as the one to enable at boot: ooops. As a work-around, I disabled the onboard 10/100 NIC in the BIOS and re-installed, but some of our servers have multiple ports and it may not be possible to force a single Gbit NIC to be visible in all cases. I foresee (but have not tested) similar issues when I try to autoinstall some compute servers because they have multiple onboard ports (some mixed 10/100 and Gbit) and the Gbit port in use may not be the one SC thinks is eth0. Note: the golden client uses an onboard forcedeth and the e1000 driver is included in the UYOK via the UYOK.modules_to_include file. -- Patrick Dowler Tel/Tél: (250) 363-6914 | fax/télécopieur: (250) 363-0045 Canadian Astronomy Data Centre | Centre canadien de donnees astronomiques National Research Council Canada | Conseil national de recherches Canada Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada 5071 West Saanich Road | 5071, chemin West Saanich Victoria, BC | Victoria (C.-B.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
