On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, C. V. wrote:
> most of my servers have more than one network card. In some cases I have
> to use eth devices which are not assigned as eth0 by linux. Sadly that
> does not seem to work out of the box since FAI always tries to use eth0.
> So, the boot stops when trying to mount nfs-root because eth0 is not
> able to find it. It is connected to different Network.
>
> Is there a way to assign a specific eth device for this or at least to
> tell FAI that he should look on all eth devices? I did not find anything
> about this problem.
Maybe this (or some similar script) can help:
---8<---
#!/bin/sh
set -e
if=
status=
while read if rest; do
case $if in
eth[0-9]*)
if=${if%:*}
while read l d status; do
case $l in
Link)
case $d in
detected:)
[ $status !=
yes ] || break
;;
esac
;;
esac
done <<-EOF
$(ethtool $if)
EOF
[ "$status" != yes ] || break
;;
esac
done < /proc/net/dev
[ "$if" ] && [ "$status" = yes ] || exit 1
echo $if
--->8---
It returns to stdout the name of the 1st found interface with:
Link detected: yes
or error status code.
Cheers,
--
Cristian
