From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 21:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A3137B50B for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:53:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3C4rIk14397; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Joseph Stein" Cc: Subject: RE: Naming ethernet NICs Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:53:18 -0700 Message-ID: <000201c0c30c$7df97c20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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