Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 12243
Multiple network devices should show also the driver
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
I did a network FTP-install of beta1 using a custom-made comps file. The installer asked 'You have multiple network decives on this system. Which would you like to use to install through? [eth0, eth1]' This is a nice addition. However, I would like to change that to something like 'eth0 (3c59x)', 'eth1 (tulip)' so that driver name (really, _network card type_) would be apparent. If you have a couple of cards of differend brand, you don't have any idea which ethX is which (of course, you can look from another window which was insmod'ed first).
Is this really worthwhile (I've added msf and msw to the cc: list so they can comment)? As you'll normally get: eth0 (eepro100) eth1 (eepro100) it doesn't seem to be a huge win. I suspect most people run the same brand of nic, or multiport nic's.
Oh, perhaps I was looking into this too much from our perspective. ;) We sometimes use a couple of well-known brands for NICs, and mix them when setting up a 2-3 NIC box. This is usually done so that you'd have SOME idea and control which card is which ethX (from conf.modules) because they use different drivers. With same brand cards, you just have to wait and pray. I have seen ethX's get mixed up sometimes at poweroff/on.