RE: PCI device order problem

Leech, Christopher (christopher.leech@intel.com)
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:25:01 -0700


If you're that concerned about possible ordering changes due to future BIOS
upgrades, I'd suggest setting up an /etc/mactab and using nameif to control
interface naming from userspace.

-- Chris Leech

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. J. Lu [mailto:hjl@lucon.org]
> We can use eth1. It is just very confusing since Linux and
> hardware manual don't agree which one is the first NIC. Also,
> when we upgrade the BIOS, the BIOS order may change. As for
> other schemes, we don't want to change every software which
> access ethX.
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