Re: order of NICs by new debian-installer

[Patrick Willam <p.willam@gmx.de>]

Hi *!

Thanks to all who answered and helped us.

Klaus Ade Johnstad schrieb:
> tirsdag 25. mai 2004, 22:18, skrev Patrick Willam:
> > is it possible (or even likely) that...
> > ...the new [skolelinux-]debian-installer puts two NICs in
> > a different order than an older version of it?
>
> Yes it is. We used to load nic modules alphabetically, now they are 
> loaded according to their place on the pci-bus.

I do not consider this as a bug --- so i haven't looked into bugzilla.

> For some servers this 
> means that a apt-get upgrade will swtich around your networkcards.

_This_ I consider as a bug.
But we didn't do "apt-get upgrade", we did a fresh install ;-)

> The good thing about this is that the name of the module changes, the 
> roles of the network cards will be the same.

indeed ;-)

Problem is solved by changing the network cables.

Bye,
Patrick & Monika