Dell also has a util for this. It reliably sorts the NICs in the way you'ld expect them to be. Ie. on-board NICs first, then add-on cards.
http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/ I've tried and used this on 2950 and R710. It works but the 2950 don't need anything for me anymore. It used to mess up the NICs but started to work as expected some years ago. The R710 consistently put my quad-NIC first, even if I specify pci=bfsort as a kernel option at boot. Chris. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian O'Mahony > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:37 PM > To: Ben > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: NICs in RHEL / PE2850 > > Thanks Ben, will have a look at this. Actually using > Openmanage for now as it has the details in there, but this > wont always be an option. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben > Sent: 02 December 2009 10:46 > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: NICs in RHEL / PE2850 > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Brian O'Mahony wrote: > > > I am setting up a 2850 to do some testing for moving our code > > repositories over to SAN storage. I have a pe2850 with two onboard > > NICs and a dual port PCI nic. All four ports are coming up as Intel > > e1000 ports. Is there any way of telling from inside the OS which > > exact port eth0,1,2,3 actually are? Ive seen RHEL change > port around > > before, and I was just wondering how to check which interface > > corresponds to which physical port, as this will probably > be important when we implement it. > > ethtool -p|--blink|--identify ethX is your friend. > > Ben > -- > Unix Support, MISD, University of Cambridge, England Plugger > of wire, typer of keyboard, imparter of Clue > Life Is Short. It's All Good. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > > > The information in this email is confidential and may be > legally privileged. > It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email > by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended > recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any > action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is > prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended > addressee please contact the sender and dispose of this > e-mail. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
