Assignment of network interface names at boot time

From: Tiago Manuel Nunes Marques
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 14:41:32 EST


Hi all,

I don't know if this would be more appropriate to submit as a bug report but I would like to know where I could start tackling this issue instead of submitting a bug report.

I administer a small cluster which I have now started to migrate to diskless root but I seem to be having problems with the network interfaces, which, on boot, are randomly assigned eth0 or eth1. This is a behavior that I didn't experienced in 2.6.24 but 2.6.26 has some patches that I would like to have.

UDEV rules are not a solution, since I need to boot from the interface, hopefully having a way to define the same interface to all the machines, for instance: have lower MAC interfaces be eth0, boot from them, having the network administrator change these interfaces for the PXE network, if necessary. Right now, sometimes the test machine boots, sometimes it gives eth0 to the other interface and fails to mount the root filesystem.

Where can I start, as this been tackled yet? I searched google but found no one with the same issues.

Best regards,

Tiago Marques
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