Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:53:18 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Joseph Stein" <joes@joescanner.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <000201c0c30c$7df97c20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.31.0104102252250.1152-100000@hood>
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That's a great tip, I'll have to remember that! Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: joes@shasta.wstein.com [mailto:joes@shasta.wstein.com]On Behalf Of >Joseph Stein >Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:55 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: Naming ethernet NICs > > >> 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. > >Every NIC I have ever purchased or installed has had the MAC address >either etched onto the PCB or attached via label, so by remembering the >sequence they were installed, I can simply do an 'ifconfig' to see which >MAC address belongs to which interface. > >A friend actually engraves the last 6 digits of the MAC address on the >"sleve" of the card for reference. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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