Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Sequence of network cards | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:15:55 +0200 |
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> 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.
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