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From: "Vladimir B. Savkin" <savkin@shade.msu.ru>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:38:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-102630499928867@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-102624934518788@msgid-missing>

Thus spake bert hubert:
> 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.

A script to rename interfaces with "ip link ... set name ..." after
modprobe according to their hw addresses should suffice.

I never tried this because in my experience order of detection was always
consistant between reboots assuming there are no hardware chasnges.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10 12:38 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
2002-07-10 12:38 ` Vladimir B. Savkin [this message]
2002-07-10 12:42 ` bert hubert

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