From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Cc: girish@bombay.retortsoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to map network cards ?
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:40:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C30950A.F58038F0@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112311632.KAA51999@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Jesse Pollard wrote:
> The only way to determine
> the ACTUAL eth0 is via mac number and trial and error.
not correct, as noted in other e-mail.
> I configure ONE interface (all others are down), then plug in to a working
> network.
>
> If I can ping the other machine then I know which network a given
> interface is on - label it.
>
> Now down that interface, and initialize another one. Repeat until all
> interfaces are identified.
also note that one can rename interfaces, or in the future they might
appear out-of-order. To only way to be obsolutely certain where a
network device is on the PCI bus is ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 16:32 how to map network cards ? Jesse Pollard
2001-12-31 16:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2001-12-31 17:34 Jesse Pollard
2001-12-31 17:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-31 15:54 Girish Hilage
2001-12-31 16:20 ` Jeff Garzik
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