[Techtalk] Network interfaces in image replication

[Joana Botto]

Hi Gayathri,

The servers are Sun Fire X2200 M2.
The first two network cards are broadband and the other two are nvidia.

Best regards,
Joana Botto

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Gayathri Swaminathan
<gayathri.swa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Joana Botto <joana.botto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had to install 16 servers with RHEL 5, I replicated the image using RAID
>> 1.
>> The servers are exactly the same and each one has 4 network interfaces.
>> Some of the serves after a reboot don't have network, the network
>> interfaces seem to be switched like these eth0 looks like eth2, eth1
>> is eth3, eth2 is eth1, and eth3 is eth0.
>>
>> I already tried to comment out the MAC addresses at
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX but after a reboot the
>> network interfaces still appear switched. I also deleted those files
>> hoping they would be generated but the problem still exists.
>>
>> Looks like a common problem in image replication. Can somebody give me
>> a hand please.
>>
>>
>
> Hey Joana:
>
> What is the hardware branded/custom built?
>
>
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