so if a pc-server is standing vertically, i.e., TOP pci1 pci2 pci3 -- nic2 pci4 -- nic1 BOTTOM
nic2 will be eth0 and nic1 will be eth1... right? thanks.
From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [plug] nic numbering
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:30:57 -0800
Quoting CG Haravata ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> from our experinece, the one nearer the processor is eth0 in terms of the
> pci slot, the one second farthest is eth1, and so on...
It really all depends on the way the driver is written -- which means
that different drivers probably have different heuristics. Most often
(for PCI-type ethernet devices), device numbers seem to be assigned
first to the lowest-numbered PCI devices.
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