NIC assignment in FC5

[David Ash]

Thomas Sprinkmeier wrote:
> I have an FC5 box with 3 NIC's.
> 
> It seems that every time it boots it randomises which NIC is assigned to
> which eth device.
> 
> I think it's because I've removed the MAC address from the ifcfg-eth<n>
> files ('cos I want to clone the disk to 3 other boxes).
> 
> Does anyone know if the MAC address listed in the config file actually
> does tie a NIC to an eth device?
> 
> Is there another mechanism I could use which would be portable to the
> other boxes (with obviously different MAC addresses)?
> 
> The fallback is to put the MAC addresses back in and edit the cloned
> disks as required :-(
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 

yeah that's how I've done it.  The following kbase article explains the 
mac address workaround, but also another one is to use pci=nosort as 
boot parameter to force it to use bus/device/function order:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_3827.shtm

Regards
Dave