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detecting First NIC and Second NIC as eth2 and eth3

Jees Joy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:04:34 GMT

Hi Friends,

I have HP DL 585g2 with RHEL 3 U8; The H/W have 6 NIC cards. First 2 on the Mother Board and have another DUO Nic in the 3 PCI Slot and another DUO NIC in th 8 PCI Slot; Currently the link is active only at First ethernet port. But after installation, Linux detect the first Ethernet divice of the HW as eth2;

could somebody help me

Thanks in advance

Re: detecting First NIC and Second NIC as eth2 and eth3

Ivan Ferreira — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:18:42 GMT

Check this link, see the HWADDR parameter in the device configuration files:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html

Re: detecting First NIC and Second NIC as eth2 and eth3

skt_skt — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:53:11 GMT

if you are interested on bonding. since you have 6 NICs.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-bond-or-team-multiple-network-interfaces-nic-into-single-interface.html

Re: detecting First NIC and Second NIC as eth2 and eth3

Andrew Cowan — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:16:11 GMT

Jees,

This is virtually impossible to control as the device names depend upon how Linux gropes the various system buses. If you are looking at pluggable cards you can control the names according to the socket locations, however a lot of modern devices are hard-wired onto the motherboard, or internal buses, and therefore you can't move them.