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On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 13:06:53 +1000
From: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTEC
: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethernet-multiple NICs and laptop
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:32:36 -0600 (CST),
Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a port replicator with a 3Com 3C905C NIC built-in. When
Actually, I think Windows does the equivilant of this in user space. That is, it
internally numbers the devices as they appear just like Linux would, but then the
network code takes care of knowing which interface is supposed to have which
settings. So it's basically the same thing as this cool
And for the broken architectures with one MAC per machine and the same type of cards
there has got to be some way to identify different cards.
One MAC per machine isnt broken. Its quite valid.
Alan
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Subject: Re: Ethernet-multiple NICs and laptop
And for the broken architectures with one MAC per machine and the same type of
cards
there has got to be some way to identify different cards.
One MAC p
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Subject: Re: Ethernet-multiple NICs and laptop
And for the broken architectures with one MAC per machine and the same type of
cards
there has got to be some way to identify different cards.
One MAC per machine isnt broken. Its quite valid.
Alan
Actually, I think Red Hat should fix their network scripts to do this. That is,
configure the card based on the MAC address and not the kernel number.
MAC address does not have to be unique per card. On older Sparcs for example
its unique per host which rather ruins the idea.
Alan
8 Apr 2000 13:06:53 +1000
From: Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethernet-multiple NICs and laptop
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:32:36 -0600 (CST),
Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a port replicator w
Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
Actually, I think Red Hat should fix their network scripts to do this. That is,
configure the card based on the MAC address and not the kernel number.
MAC address does not have to be unique per card. On older Sparcs for example
its unique per host
Ed Carp wrote:
Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
Actually, I think Red Hat should fix their network scripts to do this. That is,
configure the card based on the MAC address and not the kernel number.
MAC address does not have to be unique per card. On older Sparcs for example
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:32:36 -0600 (CST),
Jim Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a port replicator with a 3Com 3C905C NIC built-in. When I'm docked,
my port replicator's NIC enables with eth0 and my PCMCIA network card
enables with eth1. When I'm undocked my PCMCIA card takes over eth0.
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