On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Stroller <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not really qualified to comment, but my instinct is to prefer a more > general solution - that all ports should be named ethX, but (in the absence > of udev rules) always to be numbered in MAC address order, for instance. > What the names are is more or less irrelevant to me, but having things come up in a repeatable order would be really nice. Most servers I work with are diskless and stateless. The irony then is that udev (from a common OS image) does a great job of figuring out what's on a stateless server at each reboot, but then depends on local state in persistant rules to determine naming. For the process to be deterministic and repeatable without the need for saving state anywhere would be great, naming devices in order of MAC, PCI id or whatever else would be consistent would be a huge improvement. At the moment I usually wind up modifying rc.sysinit to unload all network related modules, then load them serially so that I at least get consistent order by NIC driver. jbh _______________________________________________ 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
