Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:56:39 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <20010417215639.A54277@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <000e01c0c24a$9c9edfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:45:27PM -0700 References: <01041017553500.02141@pravda.tenzo.net> <000e01c0c24a$9c9edfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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So you're advocating using NICs on different drivers, just so that you can tell them apart? On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:45:27PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael O'Henly > > > >So if NICs are named on the basis of their type/driver, doesn't > >that mean a > >lot of reconfiguring is needed if you should happen to replace a card with > >something different? > > > > Let me point out that with regular PC hardware, you can't replace a NIC with > a different type without taking the server offline. Once you do that, all > of the benefits of "transparent reconfiguration" are basically lost. > > In any case, even if you do it differently and make everything "eth0, eth1, > etc. and so on, then how do you determine what physical card in the system > goes with what port? > > To give you an example, recently I built a router on a 486 with 5 separate > nics in them. Every NIC in the router is the same, (SMC8013) and > thus I had ed0, ed1, ed2, etc. On bootup, I still had to test each port to > determine which physical card went to what ed. > > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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