Re: which NIC is which

2002-07-11 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, John Telford wrote: > Interesting possibility. Fortunately I haven't experienced eth(n) > assignments changing between reboot. My experience is adding another > *may* change eth(n) assignments. I'll second this John, I've never seen the order change without a hardware cha

Re: which NIC is which

2002-07-10 Thread John Telford
gt; > -Original Message- > From: John Telford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 2:52 PM > To: redhat-list > Subject: which NIC is which > > > I'm building routers. It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will > be assigned e

RE: which NIC is which

2002-07-10 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
2002 2:52 PM To: redhat-list Subject: which NIC is which 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

RE: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread pwitting
From: John Telford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >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. >My question is, what's the algorithm for assigning Et

Re: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:52:15PM -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 s

Re: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:52:15PM -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. It's largely voodoo that probably onl

Re: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread John Telford
, such as eth0 or eth1, may change when another card is added. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Telford > > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:52 PM > > To: redhat-list > > Subject: wh

RE: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Anthony Abby wrote: > Could you not add eth0 first... then add eth1 after you finish configuring > the first NIC? That way there'd be no confusion which was which. It doesn't work that way, especially when you have multiple, identical NICs. In the boxes I've had with multi

RE: which NIC is which

2002-07-09 Thread Anthony Abby
uly 09, 2002 4:52 PM > To: redhat-list > Subject: which NIC is which > > > 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

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