Multiple NICs, partial success, partial weirdness

[Carsten Aulbert]

Ralf Utermann schrieb:

> if you have several nodes with identical hardware setup (like identical motherboard with
> 2 onboard ports, an additional dual-port NIC always in the same slot) you could add 
> an udev rules file to nfsroot and initrd (using a initramfs-tools/hooks script), where you
> label the devices with pci slot id's. You use  entries like
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="pci", ID=="0000:12:04.1", NAME="eth0"
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="pci", ID=="0000:12:04.0", NAME="eth1"
> ...
> Then you could always pxe boot via eth0.
> 

Most of our machines ~90% have the same hardware, but then we have quite
a small plethora of different machines and this will grow over then next
months to years

Thanks for the input

Cheers

Carsten