Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Michael K. Johnson" <> | Subject | arbitrary ethernet devices? | Date | Wed, 07 Aug 1996 17:15:33 -0400 |
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Erik Troan and I just noticed that with kerneld (at least), ethernet devices (at least) have to be accessed in order and be consecutive. That is, say that you have an /etc/conf.modules file containing alias eth5 3c509 kerneld will not load the module when you run "ifconfig eth5 <ip_address>", and so ifconfig will respond "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device".
This appears to mean that interfaces must be brought up in order.
Is there any particular reason for this?
michaelkjohnson
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