Order of devices listed in ifconfig

2006-08-21 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I'm certain I read up on this somewhere before... When you install a FreeBSD system (6.1 here), the devices don't always configure in order. For example, I have a few Dell PowerEdge systems, upon which 2 are FreeBSD The devices would normally appear in order (similar to Linux) where

Re: Order of devices listed in ifconfig

2006-08-21 Thread Mark Andrews
I'm certain I read up on this somewhere before... When you install a FreeBSD system (6.1 here), the devices don't always configure in order. For example, I have a few Dell PowerEdge systems, upon which 2 are FreeBSD The devices would normally appear in order (similar to Linux)

Re: Order of devices listed in ifconfig

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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