Re: Ethernet devide enumeration problems

[Aslan Carlos <aslan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,
look in
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames

maybe it will be helpful. :)

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Aslan Carlos de M. Ramos
Network Administrator
K8 Networks, Digirati Networks, HostNet
Tel: +55(21)2233-5950 Ramal:29
Skype: aslancarlos

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 03:10 -0700, terry white wrote:
> ... ciao:
> 
>     as a preface:
> 
>     i've read suggestions about using udev and associated magic
> toward a solution.  i am not convinced that the way to go.
> 
> 
> : on "6-26-2007" "Mauricio Silveira" writ:
> : P5b Mobo for my office server, it has 2 integrated NICs
> : the order for eth0/eth1 changes at each boot!
> 
>     as the nics integrated into the motherboard, reference to them must
> exist withing the bios.  by implication, this well prior to a kernel
> loading, and executing modules for udev (hotswap) hardware.
> 
>     the approach i would attempt, is to assign a static irq and addr to
> each device, within the bios, and pass that information to the kernel via
> tbe bootloader.  just a thought ...
> 
>

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