Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:48:23 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I name my network interface? Message-ID: <20051023164823.GA28587@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510231825530.28572@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510231825530.28572@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:30:35PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > Hi! > > I have realized that my new motherboard has a built-in network > interface, and I'd like to use it as well as the PCI based one I have. > > But, what do I call it when I plumb it with "ifconfig"? > > The PCI card I have is identified during boot as rl0, and the built-in > as "rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0". This is not another network card, but another interface to the rl0 card. Using "dmesg |grep 'Ethernet address'|sort|uniq" gives a list of network interfaces. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDW77XEnfvsMMhpyURAlm1AKCgB2l0Sf3qlxfoV/eBNnf3WxkDJgCgqv4V Zy6AfRmsuJyuSyhaLBpVU8E= =vxrE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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