Issues about anaconda setting up NICs

[Dan Thurman]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:17 -0800, Gerry Tool wrote:
> Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > As I suspected when I first installed FC5-T3, that somehow the
> network
> > cards are being setup backwards when setting it up via anaconda. My
> > eth0 and eth1 cards are backwards from anaconda but when I finally
> > got all my stuff updated and installed in FC5-T3, what I did was to
> > blow away the ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1 definition files (setup
> initially
> > via anaconda) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and ensured these
> also
> > did not exists in /etc/sysconfig/networking, I rebooted the system
> and
> > sure enough these files did not exists nor did I expect it to.  So,
> > proceeding and selected gnome-menu: System->Administration->Network,
> > I looked into the hardware devices tab and the eth0 and eth1 NIC
> cards
> > were properly assigned as I expected it to be.  So it was a simple
> > matter of completing the rest of the parameters and everything is
> setup
> > just fine.
> >
> > I find this behavior exactly the same with the production release of
> FC5
> > as well.
> >
> > So, my point is, that if you multi-boot as I do, Fedora is the one
> that
> > is choosing the NIC cards is backwards compared to other OS's I have
> > installed in my system and all because anaconda asks for eth0 and
> eth1
> > settings in a backward fashion.  Now that I got it corrected, I can
> MB
> > to different OS's without being forced to change my network cable
> > assignments.
> >
> > Please fix this behavior and get it right.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Dan
> >
> >  
> If you expect to get it fixed, this list is not the only place to note
> it.
> File a bug in bugzilla.redhat.com, otherwise it is not a bug.
> 
Bug #187301 is filed.

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