On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 10:52, Laleem wrote: > Hello, > > I have some questions about the network cards and the ethx interfaces. How > do the ethernet interfaces get connected to the physical network cards? >
The connection is made when the module is loaded into the kernel. If you have two cards that use the same module then the module will scan the pci bus and the first card that it detects will be allocated eth0 and the next eth1 and so on. If you have two different cards using different modules then the order the modules are loaded is important. The first module loaded will scan for cards and start allocating from eth0 and the second or later modules will scan for cards and start allocating from the next spare ethx number. > Also, is there a way for me to force the network card in the upper PCI slot > to take eth0 (and so on)? If the two cards use the same module then I am not sure if you can change the order(someone else may know) but if the cards are different and use different modules then change the order of loading the modules in /etc/modules > The cards I have are PnP and apparently I cannot > hard configure the IRQ or I/O range. What type of cards are they? -- Lyndsay Roger Dunedin, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
