>>> On 04 Oct 2001 12:14:12 -0500, Johnie Stafford <stafforj@core.afcc.com> said: >>> On 04 Oct 2001 11:13:37 -0500, Johnie Stafford <stafforj@core.afcc.com> said: jms> In every version of Solaris previous to Solaris 8 7/01, network jms> devices were numbered sequentially starting at 0 (hme0, hme1...; jms> qfe0, qfe1...). But starting with Solaris 8 7/01 the devices are jms> not numbered starting at 0. For instance, we just installed an jms> E10k domain and the qfe ports are numbered qfe4 through qfe11 jms> for the two cards installed. jms> Is it possible to get them to number from 0 again? jms> A clarification to my original message. The systems are jumpstarting jms> this way. I've had several people suggest modifying the jms> /etc/path_to_inst file to correct the problem. I'm looking for jms> something that fixes this problem automaticly during jumpstart. jms> The responses have led me to look into the path_to_inst file on one of jms> the machines in question. It appears that the hardware discovery jms> process in Solaris8 7/01 discovers a phantom PCI bus that does not jms> exist, and that is where my missing qfe instances are assigned. Thanks to everybody that replied. The path_to_inst responses got me going in the right direction. The problem turned out to be a corrupt jumpstart image. Johnie _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Oct 4 14:04:22 2001
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