[syslinux] Network Interface

[Dimitris Giatsios]

Hello,

I'm booting a number of PCs through PXE from a server and then these nodes
mount a common root filesystem (voyage distribution) located on the server
over NFS.

My problem is the following:

I want all of the network interface names of the PCs to be the same (e.g.
eth0 or something else), but some of them appear as eth0 and others as eth1.
I've tried using udev, but it won't work because, after the filesystem is
mounted, the interface is already up and running and can't be renamed.

I came across the following webpage, where in the last link an approach
using the GRUB or LILO boot configuration files is described (based on IRQ)

 --> www. science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames

I wonder if I can use this with PXE as well, that is, if I can configure the
PXE boot configuration file to assign a name to a network interface based on
the IRQ or memory address value.
If it is possible, can someone tell me what the syntax is in the case of
PXE?


Thanks in advance for your help,
Dimitris