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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:03:20 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
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Subject: Re: NICs trading places ?
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:56:22PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

Oops, sorry, that's what I meant.  Call nameif in a /sbin/hotplug script
when the network interface is registered.

greg k-h
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