On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 04:09:44PM +1100, Crossfire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> John Ferlito was once rumoured to have said:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:52:42PM +1100, Martin wrote:
> >> 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 ?
> >
> > I just usually plug some ethernet in and bring one device up and
> > swap the ethernet cable to work out which one it is. Then label it :)
>
> Better way is to copy the hardware address onto the back of the card
> where you can see it, and check them against data from ifconfig.
Netgear provides the address already on the card, its located where the
boot rom would be......
I have seen lots of cards around from lots of different companies.
I know that a while ago every company used to mark their cards with
the mac address, I dont know why they dont do that anymore.
jhs
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