Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:56:22 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: NICs trading places ? |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:20:22AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > >>And: ifconfig does not give the card types. >>So presently one needs both boot messages and ifconfig. >> >>And: in some situations the system does not boot because of >>eth numbering mixup, and one never gets the opportunity to >>ask ifconfig. > > > ifconfig can bind cards to devices based on mac addresses. > /sbin/hotplug can also be used for this. > > I recommend doing this for anyone with more than one nic card in their > machine.
Actually nameif(8) is the preferred way of doing this.
Jeff
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