On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:59 PM, McEvoy, James <james.mcevoy(a)hp.com> wrote:
Is there a way to have cobbler configure a NIC so it has ONBOOT=no on
its sysconfig file on RHEL5.5.
I have two quad-port gigE cards I am bonding together and a a two port 10gigE card that
is not connected to the network. Since I do not have a 10gigE switch yet is there a way
to configure the server in cobbler so the 10gigE ports do not try to start on boot?
This is in the post_install_network_config script:
## Disable all eth interfaces by default before overwriting
## the old files with the new ones in the working directory
## This stops unneccesary (and time consuming) DHCP queries
## during the network initialization
sed -i 's/ONBOOT=yes/ONBOOT=no/g' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
The issue may be that the 10gige cards show up as something else - on
RHEL6 I see them show up as pXpY (ie. p1p1 is the first port on the
first 10gige cards). You could either tweak that line and submit a
patch/ticket to get it in the mainline or just write a custom snippet
that does the same thing.