Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:45:27 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <michael@tenzo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <000e01c0c24a$9c9edfc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <01041017553500.02141@pravda.tenzo.net>
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>-----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
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