From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:34:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102629037516087@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102624934518788@msgid-missing>
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:05PM -0700, John Telford wrote:
> I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will
> be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping
> testing usually clears up this simple problem.
>
> The identification problem gets worse when adding a third NIC, after
> sorting out the first two NICs. Frequently the eth0 or eth1 assignments
> for the first two NICs change.
There are tricks to configure based on the MAC address of your interface
instead of on its place in the probe. Perhaps googling on that will help.
Regards,
bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-10 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 21:14 [LARTC] which NIC is which John Telford
2002-07-09 21:56 ` Arthur van Leeuwen
2002-07-09 22:06 ` Michael T. Babcock
2002-07-10 6:37 ` Arthur van Leeuwen
2002-07-10 8:34 ` bert hubert [this message]
2002-07-10 12:38 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2002-07-10 12:42 ` bert hubert
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