On Tuesday 22 August 2006 09:44, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > The devices would normally appear "in order" (similar to Linux) where > they are physically attached... first, em0 and em1 would be the > motherboard NICs, then any PCI cards.
I believe they're probed in order, but it's entirely up to your motherboard vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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