I have seen this issue on my Dell PE2950 and PE1955 systems, but from reading the paper this may be a fairly common problem. I found a whitepaper from Dell describing why in some cases NIC cards are not labeled by linux in the way one might expect.
http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v2.pdf In my case there are two cards, one labeled Gig1 and Gig2 which ended up switched from my perspective and named eth1 and eth0 respectively. Anyway, dell wrote a set of scripts which fixes this as well as describing what the scripts do if you want to do it by hand. They describe fixes for SLES 9 and 10 as well as RHEL 3+ The scripts work for my headnode, which has both NICs active, but did not work on my compute node because the oscar image only has one activated by default (which is still numbered wrong). I plan to deactivate the second NIC on my compute nodes in the BIOS since I do not need it, which also fixes the problem. Just thought I would share... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
