hi all, thanx for the prompt reply on linux threads....,i am acting on the advice and hope to solve the problem.... is there any way to fing out the order of the cards in the slots when the m/c boots up.Like earlier,the cards used to come up in the order in which they were installed i.e the first card was eth0,followed by eth1 and eth2..(i have 3 cards) .But i had to remove the cards for some reason,and when i did it again i find that the middle card is eth0,the last is eth1 and the first is eth2.I found that out by running a ping command to a remote host,and swapping the RJ45 among each of the cards,the one with which ping responded was the active interface(the routes had been set likewise...) my query is,is there any way to find out this order,except by the silly way i was doing it?.What decides which cards will be assigned to which eth-x??.is is a kernel level decision,or can it be forced by certian settings somewhere?? thanx.... [31m Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind,but who cares?? 4m [4m [36m Siddhartha Srivastava [36m dept. of Electrical Engineering, [32m Indian Institute Of Science, [33m Bangalore. 3 Hostel Addr. 3 M-50. [0m - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
