On Tuesday 09 Aug 2005 7:21 pm, Harshal wrote: > hi, > i have machines here with 2 ethernet cards each. the card > that is inseted in the PCI Exp. slot always detected as eth0 and > the one onboard eth1 except on the machine where i have 3 NICs. > there the onboard gets eth0, PCI exp. NIC as eth1 and the last one > inserted in normal PCI slot as eth2. > > how does OS decides which card to call eth0 or so on?
depends on the bios, but you can change the order by configuring your modules.conf or conf.modules file -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
