Re: Ethernet devide enumeration problems

["Adam T. Bowen" <adam.bowen@connectinternetsolutions.com>]

Hi,

Aslan Carlos wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> look in
> http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames
> 
> maybe it will be helpful. :)

Hadn't heard of ifrename before.  That's really useful to know about
(although bizarrely it is part of the wireless-tools package under
fedora/red hat/centos).

Cheers

Adam


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> Aslan Carlos de M. Ramos
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> 
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 03:10 -0700, terry white wrote:
>> ... ciao:
>>
>>     as a preface:
>>
>>     i've read suggestions about using udev and associated magic
>> toward a solution.  i am not convinced that the way to go.
>>
>>
>> : on "6-26-2007" "Mauricio Silveira" writ:
>> : P5b Mobo for my office server, it has 2 integrated NICs
>> : the order for eth0/eth1 changes at each boot!
>>
>>     as the nics integrated into the motherboard, reference to them must
>> exist withing the bios.  by implication, this well prior to a kernel
>> loading, and executing modules for udev (hotswap) hardware.
>>
>>     the approach i would attempt, is to assign a static irq and addr to
>> each device, within the bios, and pass that information to the kernel via
>> tbe bootloader.  just a thought ...
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 



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