Daniel,

Hm, that's different.

I do however know that Dell and Redhat have been working on some methods of
using DMI / smbios labeling to keep the port names on the back of the
system the same as the system's actual ethernet ports.  I've got more than
a couple boxes where this caused a bit of head scratching.

More info here:
http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/enterprise/b/tech-center/archive/2011/05/26/meaningful-names-for-network-devices-in-rhel-6-sp1-on-dell-systems.aspx

Hope this helps. or at least doesn't confuse the issue.

James

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Daniel Kertby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ooups!
>
> I accidentally send the previous email to early....
>
> Now to the issue,
>
> The system - has 3 network interfaces, were the third (presented by bios)
> interface is used as the public interface. We do a cobbler installing using
> the third interface.
>
> When installing Red Hat 5.5, interface 'eth0' will be assigned to the
> interface which was used during the installation.
>  - This is fine, however is it possible to have it labeled as the instance
> number it was detected as (eg. eth2)?
>
> When installing Red Hat 6.0 or 6.1 the interface pointing at the third
> interface gets labeled eth2-eth0 (seen when running ifconfig -a)
> (see attached image)
>
> Is this a known issue for Red hat 6.x or does it sound familiar to anyone?
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Daniel Kertby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First, thanks to you developers for continuing the excellent work on
>> Cobbler!
>>
>>
>> Now to the issue,
>>
>> The system - has 3 network interfaces, were the third interface is used
>> as the public interface.
>>
>> When installing Red Hat 5.5, interface 'eth0' will be assigned to the
>> interface which was used during the installation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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