From: "Buddy Lumpkin" <b.lumpkin@attbi.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: When laptop is docked, eth0 moves from pcmcia to docking station nic (both work wth same driver)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:17:30 -0800
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Hello All,
 
I don't know exactly where to look to solve this problem, so im posting
here.
 
I have a laptop with a 3com PCMCIA NIC and a 3com NIC built into a
docking station. When I dock my laptop, eth0 becomes the docking station
NIC. I just want to know where to look to be able to control which
device becomes which device. Im used to Solaris where a path_to_inst
file correlates a device path to an instance number and device links are
made accordingly. Does Linux have a similar capability?
 
I wouldn't care so much about this, but vmware acts flaky if you have a
bridge on both eth0 and eth1 when eth1 disappears.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
--Buddy


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