I had this the other day. Both cards identical, but one had a cable
connected and the other didn't. The one with the cable connected got
eth0 even though it was in the further PCI slot than the other card. So I
guess there must be a number of factors. I shall have to try them with
the cable swapped to the other card.
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, John Ferlito wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:52:42PM +1100, Martin wrote:
> > 2 ethernet cards, both Netgear FA310tx
> >
> > both detected fine.
> >
> > question is, is there any way to tell which physical card is eth0 and
> > which is eth1 ?
>
> I just usually plug some ethernet in and bring one device up and
> swap the ethernet cable to work out which one it is. Then label it :)
> >
> > and, will they always be detected in the same order ? (ie. so that eth0
> > will always refer to the same physical card)
>
> As long as you don't move where the cards are in the pci slots
> then yes. I think there might be some sort of rule like the card closest
> the cpu is eth0 or something but I'm not sure. If so this is only the
> case if the cards are of the same type. If they're different types and
> they;re compiled into the kernel then the interface is chosen by the
> order they get detected which is which ever order it is in the .c file.
> This wil always remain the same no matter what slot the cards are in. If
> you use modules it depends on how you pout in the aliases eg alias tulip
> eth0 will determin which is which.
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