From: John Telford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will >be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping >testing usually clears up this simple problem. >My question is, what's the algorithm for assigning Ethernet >designations? I know it not placement order in the PCI bus, and I know >its not the NIC data-link address. There is so much variation in hardware out there its impossible to give a simple answer, and I'll proceed this a simple disclaimer: I speak from experience, not as a developer. Take it as it is. First Factor: driver load order - Assuming your using the standard RedHat kernel, just about everything is a module. But modifying /etc/modules.conf won't change anything, because this was compiled into the initrd. :^) You can change this, but thats not what was asked. Second factor: pci bus order - Personally, I like the idea of a single NIC brand, and hence a "single" driver. I've had conflicts mixing NIC's in the past. But with a homogeneous NIC I've always seen them with continuous numbers (I've built firewalls with 4 interfaces. On board NIC's should be on one end or the other. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
