From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: On a V65x server, when 6 intel pro/1000 dual port ethernet cards are added, kudzu asks for configuration information for the 12 new ports but only 10 are brought up at boot time. All ports have been cabled to live ports on a hub. Initially the server is booted with empty card slots. The on-board ports (eth0 and eth1) are configured correctly and come up after boot. Next, the 6 dual port cards are installed and cabled. Kudzu sees the additions and configures 12 new ports (I set them to DHCP). As the boot continues there should be a total of 14 ports but only 12 are brought up. In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts there are script files for 12 ports ifcfg-eth0 through ifcfg-eth11. The last two are missing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RH9 with empty PCI slots and boot the server 2.shutdown the server 3.install 6 Intel Pro/1000 MT dual port cards and cable them 4.Boot the server, note kudzu prompts for 12 interfaces 5.configure the interfaces via kudzu and complete the boot 6.log in as root and check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for 14 scripts. Note there are only 12. Actual Results: 12/14 ports are configured Expected Results: 14 / 14 ports should be configured Additional info:
Please test a later release, such as Fedora Core 1, or RHEL 3.
The problem was see by one of our customers who corrected it by taking the following action... <snip> the RH Anaconda installer set a buffer of 200 bytes to the list of all drivers to be loaded. This buffer is used in the process of creating module.conf. 200 bytes were not enough to include all 14 instances of the e1000.o driver.We've changed the size of the buffer to 400 bytes. <snip>
I completed the test with RHEL 3 and found that 11/14 ports are configured.
This should be better with newer releases.