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From: "Leech, Christopher" <christopher.leech@intel.com>
To: "'H. J. Lu'" <hjl@lucon.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: RE: PCI device order problem
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:25:01 -0700
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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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