[ale] Controlling network interface order in 2.6 kernel

[Dow_Hurst]

What if it is a 1024 node cluster and you need to switch the NICs in each box?  Then a nice rollout package would be helpful!  Jeffrey works on clusters alot so that was my first thought for his reason for asking.
Dow


-----Original Message-----
From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Sent: Dec 14, 2004 6:19 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Controlling network interface order in 2.6 kernel

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 07:31, Christopher Ness wrote:
> On 12/13/2004 10:38 pm, Chris Ricker scratched his head, bit his pencil and 
> wrote:
> >
> > If they use different drivers, control with /etc/modprobe.conf:
> ...
> > There are other ways, but those are the simplest.
> 
> Not to undermine Mr. Rickers elegant and correct solution, but I had great 
> sucess when I had the same problem.
> What I did was open the top od the box and remove both cards and put them back 
> in opposite slots. And reboot.

Do it the hard way! I just swapped the wires and relabeled the
connection. The only time this has not worked is when one card was Gbit
and the other was old 10Mb and the need was there to keep the old one on
the line to the outside WAN and the fast on the LAN.
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