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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, davej@codemonkey.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: NICs trading places ?
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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.

thanks,

greg k-h
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