Re: NICs trading places ?

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:20:22AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 
>>And: ifconfig does not give the card types.
>>So presently one needs both boot messages and ifconfig.
>>
>>And: in some situations the system does not boot because of
>>eth numbering mixup, and one never gets the opportunity to
>>ask ifconfig.
> 
> 
> ifconfig can bind cards to devices based on mac addresses.
> /sbin/hotplug can also be used for this.
> 
> I recommend doing this for anyone with more than one nic card in their
> machine.

Actually nameif(8) is the preferred way of doing this.

	Jeff