Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964800AbVJSLQH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964795AbVJSLQH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:16:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27348 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964801AbVJSLQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:16:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Sequence of network cards From: Arjan van de Ven To: Karel Kulhavy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051019104712.GC9765@kestrel> References: <20051019104712.GC9765@kestrel> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:15:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1129720556.2822.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 19 > Is the algorithm for assignment of eth? numbers by Linux kernel > documented anywhere? it's generally on a pci bus order. However... if you switch to acpi by going from 2.4 to 2.6, the pci bus order might change. The good news is that you can do a few things to mitigate this: 1) Several distros (including Fedora Core) allow you to bind ethX numbers to mac addresses, eg effectively persistent binding of ethX numbers to specific cards 2) you can rename ethX to ethY yourself with nameif and similar tools. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/