On 8/7/06, Blake Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, I have a slightly odd situation. I have multiple systems with
dead on-board NICs. We have added a new NIC to a PCI slot in each of
these machines and disabled the onboard NICs. The problem is, for
our automated deployment system to work smoothly, these new devices
_must_ be eth0 when the system comes up. The kernel always detects
the on-board NICs as eth0 and eth1, the new NIC that we've added
shows up as eth2.
I know that one way around this is to use a netdev=<irq>,<dma>,eth0
on the kernel append line, but unfortunately not all of these devices
have the same IRQ or memory address. I've seen various references to
disabling ACPI, and/or passing device driver-specific options.
Possibly also certain pci= options may help. I'm hoping someone has
dealt with this before.
On Ubuntu (and perhaps others) you can use /etc/iftab to force the
names of your network devices. man iftab for more info.
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