Messages in this thread | | | From | (Marc Haber) | Subject | Re: eth-Devices and naming wishes | Date | Mon, 08 Mar 1999 07:48:41 GMT |
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In ka.lists.linux.kernel, Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com> wrote: > > However, it seems that I can't control which ethx alias will be > > associated with the trusted network because both cards are PCI > > and their resource assignments are controlled by the system > > BIOS. Thus, I will have to jump through hoops to take care of > > this in every init and maintenance script which will prove a > > major pain and source of problems. > >In my experience, for any particular pair of PCI NE2K cards, the BIOS >will always allocate them the same way round, so if a particular card >appears first on one occasion relative to a particular second card, >then it will always appear first relative to that particular second >card.
Yes, but this is board and bios dependent. If you do a BIOS update or get a new board, the order can change.
>I don't believe what you're asking actually exists,
:-(
>but you could try >something like using the following bash script from your scripts:
<code snipped>
Thanks, that's about what I planned to do. But it surely is clumsy and could be solved elegantly with "true" aliases.
Greetings Marc
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