I think you could just switch the slots the cards are in if you find the
order changes on you. Also if it does change, it's really not that big a
deal to change eth0 to eth1.
hth
charles
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Vidiot wrote:
>
> > I currently have one LinkSys (Tulip) card in the box and will soon
> > add a second in order to talk to the in-house LAN.
> >
> > When I install the second card, is there anything that can be done beforehand
> > to make sure the current card stays eth0 and the new card becomes eth1?
> >
> > Or am I at the mercy of the BIOS?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > MB
> > --
>
> I believe you are in the land of making sacrifices to the bios gods here unless
> the cards are isa. I would bet with isa you will be able to set the irq/io
> addresses up so that you can distinguish between the two. pci on the other hand
> ....
>
> Bret
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