every ethernet card has a unique hardware address/name(in theory) known
as the MAC address of the card,
to find it for each card, boot the box with one ethernet card in, run
ifconfig
have a look at the part where it says HWaddr, this is the MAC address of
the card.
HWaddr, this is the unique name
Martin wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> situation:
>
> 2 ethernet cards, both Netgear FA310tx
>
> both detected fine.
>
> question is, is there any way to tell which physical card is eth0 and
> which is eth1 ?
>
> and, will they always be detected in the same order ? (ie. so that eth0
> will always refer to the same physical card)
>
> thanks
> marty
>
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