Hi: My linux team has a situation with the order of the ethx devices. Many linux machines (150+) have 3 sets of interfaces on both vswitches and guest lans. When the machines are (re)booted an ethernet interface will sometimes come up associated with the wrong device hence the ip address is useless. This gets compounded with vlans.
As recently as Feb 2007 the Linux on system z Device Drivers Features and Commands states: "The mapping between interface names and the device bus-ID that represents the qeth group device in sysfs is preserved when a device is set offline and back online. However, it can change when rebooting, when devices are ungrouped, or when devices appear or disappear with a machine check." Since we are have multiple machines on vswitches the namef tool isn't that useful, as I need to have unique MAC addresses, and with cloning heavily, it would be more than a nuisance to introduce this new wrinkle. The problem occurs in SUSE SLES9 2.6.5-7.257-s390x (and prior). Haven't confirmed SUSE SLES10 behaviour. I sort of recall something with the UNIQUE= variable in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-xxxx ? Any other ways of getting guaranteed order? David Kreuter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
