Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:25:26 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Subject: Re: Order of devices listed in "ifconfig" Message-ID: <200608221025.27192.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com> References: <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com>
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--nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 motherboard= =20 vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to=20 differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6lX/5ZPcIHs/zowRAs96AJ4vk7j6oxC2QIs5f966CyDsYLLKLwCfaBBz IKGJXACWmIpw1nswZrvj2dQ= =JmQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC--
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