From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 21:54:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop2pub.verizon.net (smtppop2pub.gte.net [206.46.170.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D602737B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:54:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from gte.net (evrtwa1-ar4-4-34-145-186.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.145.186]) by smtppop2pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id XAA127881700 Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:57:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from res03db2@localhost) by gte.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA54348; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:56:39 -0700 From: Robert Clark To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <20010417215639.A54277@darkstar.gte.net> References: <01041017553500.02141@pravda.tenzo.net> <000e01c0c24a$9c9edfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <000e01c0c24a$9c9edfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:45:27PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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