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From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
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To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com,
        Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Subject: Re: how to map network cards ?
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> 
> Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > The only way to determine
> > the ACTUAL eth0 is via mac number and trial and error.
> 
> not correct, as noted in other e-mail.
> 
> > I configure ONE interface (all others are down), then plug in to a working
> > network.
> > 
> > If I can ping the other machine then I know which network a given
> > interface is on - label it.
> > 
> > Now down that interface, and initialize another one. Repeat until all
> > interfaces are identified.
> 
> also note that one can rename interfaces, or in the future they might
> appear out-of-order.  To only way to be obsolutely certain where a
> network device is on the PCI bus is ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO.
> 
> 	Jeff

Does ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO work on ISA devices too? Last I knew it didn't. And
I do run a system with both PCI and ISA network cards.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil

Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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