[K12OSN] newbie

[Paul Pianta]

Lewis Holcroft wrote:

> I just remembered a strange problem that has hunted us since 9 was 
> released.
>
> The install process found both NIC's eth0 and eth1 and all was well 
> until the OS was installed and the machine rebooted. At the point that 
> the newly installed OS boots the NIC's were reversed. eth0 became eth1 
> and visa versa. We wrote a custom ks.cfg to get around this but it 
> involved the following.
>
> Editing /etc/modules.conf and switching the eth0 alias to be eth1 and 
> eth1 to eth0. Then making the same change in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and moving ifcfg-eth0 to 
> ifcfg-eth0.old, moving ifcfg-eth1 to ifcfg-eth0, then moving 
> ifcfg-eth0.old to ifcfg-eth1. Gross but solved the problem.
>
> One day we'll work out why the PCI bus is scanned differently by the 
> OS vs the boot CD. If any one already knows why, I'd love to know.
>
> Lewis

WHEW!!!! - So I'm not crazy!

This network card musical chairs has been happening to me on and off 
with many different machines since rh7.3 until FC2. I thought it was 
just me always getting eth0 and eth1 mixed up and forgetting which was 
which after the reboot.

At last I can erase that big red 'insane' stamp from my forehead :/

thanks alot!

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