Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:38:01 -0400 | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | | Subject | Re: Sequence of network cards |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>Is the algorithm for assignment of eth? numbers by Linux kernel >>documented anywhere? > > > it's generally on a pci bus order. However... if you switch to acpi by > going from 2.4 to 2.6, the pci bus order might change. > > The good news is that you can do a few things to mitigate this: > 1) Several distros (including Fedora Core) allow you to bind ethX > numbers to mac addresses, eg effectively persistent binding of ethX > numbers to specific cards > 2) you can rename ethX to ethY yourself with nameif and similar tools.
I knew about nameif, I was unaware of the bind to MAC solution, and thank you much for it. As the number of cards goes up it scales easily.
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