Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-10 Thread bert hubert
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:38:55PM +0400, Vladimir B. Savkin wrote: > A script to rename interfaces with "ip link ... set name ..." after > modprobe according to their hw addresses should suffice. > > I never tried this because in my experience order of detection was always > consistant between

Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-10 Thread Vladimir B. Savkin
Thus spake bert hubert: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:05PM -0700, John Telford wrote: > > I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will > > be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping > > testing usually clears up this simple problem. > > >

Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-10 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:05PM -0700, John Telford wrote: > I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will > be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping > testing usually clears up this simple problem. > > The identification problem gets w

Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: > > >Unfortunately, in systems with identical cards that are configured using > >plug-and-play methods such as those used by PCI random is the best shot you > >have... > > > > > 'Deterministic' is more accurate. It seems

Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: >Unfortunately, in systems with identical cards that are configured using >plug-and-play methods such as those used by PCI random is the best shot you >have... > > 'Deterministic' is more accurate. It seems to be random, on first boot. But it will almost never change

Re: [LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Arthur van Leeuwen
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, John Telford wrote: > I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will > be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping > testing usually clears up this simple problem. > > The identification problem gets worse when adding a thi

[LARTC] which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread John Telford
I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs. Ping testing usually clears up this simple problem. The identification problem gets worse when adding a third NIC, after sorting out the first two NICs. Fre