On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:54:52AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Adrian Reber (adrian@lisas.de) said:
I am seeing the same thing on a server using bonding with two ethernet interfaces. I have two different cards (e1000, acenic) and on every boot one of the card fails. The bond0 interface still works with only one card by I also have to do an rmmod, modprobe to get both cards working. So I have the same error in a different setup.
Not to sound like a broken record - but do you have ifcfg files with HWADDR in them?
No.
Background:
PCI modules are loaded (essentially) in parallel. If one driver takes longer to initialize on a particular boot, the device ordering will change.
We have code run by udev (/lib/udev/rename_device) to handle this, but it requires that ifcfg files have the HWADDR in them for the appropriate devices so it knows what should remain what.
Okay. I will try it with HWADDR and see if it fixes our problem. Thanks for the information.
Adrian