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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:47:39 +0200
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bge numbering
Message-ID:  <E1TylVD-000DBI-6a@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <201301251000.52922.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <E1TyevK-0007lx-Nr@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>  <201301251000.52922.jhb@freebsd.org>

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> On Friday, January 25, 2013 3:46:10 am Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > Hi,
> > this server, a Dell R720 has 4 bge on board,
> >      Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x5720000
> >      bge0: APE FW version: NCSI v1.1.7.0
> >      bge0: CHIP ID 0x05720000; ASIC REV 0x5720; CHIP REV 0x57200; PCI-E
> >      miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
> >      ...
> > 
> > I have connected the ethernet to port labeled 0, but it appears
> > as bge2, how can this be corrected?
> 
> It can't really.  The order of PCI devices is determined by the layout of the 
> PCI device hierarchy which is generally determined by the physical traces on 
> your motherboard.

so you are saying that Dell screwed up yet again?
the 4 bges have consecutive macs, bge1 = bge0 +1, bge2 = bge1 + 1, etc. It's
only the # 'outside' that is wrong? I will try the usual trial and error
to find the mapping, but will have to wait till Sunday.

thanks,
	danny





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