It goes by which card responds first to the detection program. One things
that I found was that the card with the lower IO address usually responded
first.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] 7.2 DrakX
> Pixel wrote:
> >
> > Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > This is the "Note below": The kernel seems to assign which adaptor
> > > gets eth0 and eth1 by a set of unknown rules. It presumably
> >
> > the rule is quite simple though: first card found is eth0, second is
eth1 and so
> > on. So to exchange eth0 and eth1, change the /etc/modules.conf
>
> "first card found"? By what algorithm? Is the search by increasing
> PCI slot number? My experimentation rather disproves that. Hence
> my "rules unknown" <g>.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [AU]
>
