RHEL4U5 and NIC flipping

[clockwork at sigsys.org]

I know at a minimum Dell, IBM and HP have the issue. I would expect its
actually a broadcom and/or intel nic (driver ?) issue. I have used ifrename
in the past to accomplish this, but it seems with rhel5 ifrename doesnt work
on boot. Is there a way to static-map a MAC to a particular interface in
rhel ?

Regards.

On 5/3/07, McDougall, Marshall (FSH) <Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca> wrote:
>
> I am in the midst of building several new servers using RHEL4U4.  I had
> not yet released them to production use and saw that U5 was available.
> I thought what better time to do it than right now when I have the
> ability to deal with anything untoward.
>
> Well, the untoward comes in the form of the nics getting flipped.  After
> the update, I rebooted the machines and none of them came back online.
> I had to make all of the eth0's eth1's and vice versa.  This has
> occurred on HP and Dell servers.  Has anyone else seen this?  Just
> curious.
>
> Regards, Marshall
>
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