On 5/1/05, Monah Baki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm certain I'm using the right cabling.
The 'right cabling' means that you need to make sure your configuration on xl0 and xl1 should match the machines you connect through the cables going into these devices. > As you can see I no longer have the interface of mac address 00:60:08:0d: > 8c:4c (previously xl0) > > But why would the system act like this in the first place????? Because it only finds a single xl(4) device. Still naming that device xl1 would be nonsense, for example when you just replaced a faulty card. The numbering order starts at 0, only taking into account devices that are present. I do not know of a way to fix a card (e.g. through its MAC address) to a specific device name. I can't say that I miss that behaviour (given the trouble a specific Linux install caused me when I had to replace a card). The above of course excludes the - unsupported - practice of trying to hardwire the device's location in the system through a custom-built kernel. Cheers, Rogier -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
