SLES 9 SP3, Autoyast and multiple NICS trouble

6 Apr 2006

      Greetings,
There seems to be an issue with multiple NICS on SLES 9 SP3

Here is the xml we have at the moment between the networking tag.

<networking>
      <dns>
        <dhcp_hostname config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_hostname>
        <dhcp_resolv config:type="boolean">false</dhcp_resolv>
        <domain>my.domain</domain>
        <hostname>myhostname</hostname>
        <nameservers config:type="list">
          <nameserver>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</nameserver>
          <nameserver>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</nameserver>
          <nameserver>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</nameserver>
        </nameservers>
      </dns>
      <interfaces config:type="list">
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <ipaddr>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</ipaddr>
          <netmask>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</netmask>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth1</device>
          <ipaddr>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</ipaddr>
          <netmask>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</netmask>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth2</device>
          <startmode>off</startmode>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth3</device>
          <startmode>off</startmode>
        </interface>
        <interface>
          <bootproto>static</bootproto>
          <device>eth4</device>
          <ipaddr>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</ipaddr>
          <netmask>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</netmask>
          <startmode>onboot</startmode>
        </interface>
      </interfaces>
      <modules config:type="list">
        <module_entry>
          <device>eth0</device>
          <module>tg3</module>
        </module_entry>
        <module_entry>
          <device>eth1</device>
          <module>tg3</module>
        </module_entry>
        <module_entry>
          <device>eth2</device>
          <module>e1000</module>
        </module_entry>
        <module_entry>
          <device>eth3</device>
          <module>e1000</module>
        </module_entry>
        <module_entry>
          <device>eth4</device>
          <module>e1000</module>
        </module_entry>
      </modules>
      <routing>
        <ip_forward config:type="boolean">false</ip_forward>
      </routing>
    </networking>

When i use this configuration i get two of the Network interfaces
configured in /etc/sysconfig/network and only one gets turned on. The
NIC that gets turned on is the first one in the interfaces tag list, and
the two that get configured in /etc/sysconfig/network is the first one
listed in the interfaces tag list and one that is listed with the
startmode as "off", all the rest of them do not even get configured at
all. Why is this happening?  Is there something that i need to be doing
different here?

Thanks,
Cameron Seader