Re: [OSR-users] Sorting of eth ports inside initrd

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Monday 03 August 2009 15:19:41 Klaus Steinberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we did run into trouble with the new production version of Openshared
> Root. We do have 6 Ethernet ports on our servers, 2 of them with the
> internal ports of the system board (broadcomm, bnx2 module), and 4
> additional ports on a add on PCI Express Card (Intel, e1000e Module).
>
> With the old initrd we got the following ordering:
>
> bnx2 Module:  eth0 and eth1
> e1000e Module:  eth2 - eth5
>
> Now with the new initrd, something changed with loading modules inside
> the initrd, and we got them exchanged, so e1000e is first (eth0 - eth3),
> and second bnx2  (eth4, eth5).
>
> Of course that didn't work, as our device assignements did not fit any
> more.
>
>
> Before we reorder our eth Ports in the Config, is there any way to
> change this behaviour, and fix the ordering of the module loading?
>
> Sincerly,
> Klaus Steinberger

Yes there is. With latest version of productive/preview. You can define the 
driver per nic.

This means if you specify:
<eth name="eth0" ... driver="bnx2"/>
For this nic bnx2 will be loaded first. 

Do think that could help?

-- 
Gruss / Regards,

Marc Grimme
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