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I might take another look at the bios. Can't really swap the cards as the
on board is built into the card --- if it can't change - I guess I will have
to boot twice! :-)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mark<br>
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<pre wrap="">eth<x> is the symbolic name assigned by the kernel to the Ethernet interface. <br>With PCI, an interface that is eth0 in a singly homed machine can become eth1 <br>when a second interface is to the machine. This effect is due to the order <br>in which the cards are found during the boot up sequence. Probes can run <br>high to low, or low to high. This is a software decision that may not be <br>open for change - but it's worth a look-see in the BIOS. You may want to try <br>swapping the card positions in your machine to gauge the effect, for example, <br>will card A become eth0 in a machine where it is 1 of 1 Ethernet IF and 1 of <br>2 Ethernet IF? Another approach is to accept the eth<x> names assigned to <br>the cards by the system and then "ifconfig" them to match the appropriate net <br>address for you network.<br><br>Mike M.<br><br><br>On Friday 25 January 2002 08:00 am, you wrote:<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I am having a bizzare problem - I have a netfinity-5100 with dual nic's<br>- It has an on board (eth0) pcnet32 --- the second is in pci slot 1<br>(eepro100) (eth1) ... When the system boots up, eth0 expects, eepro100<br>and eth1 exepect pcnet32 - so I bring it up in Single user mode, change<br>the drivers and do an init 5 (all is well) -- if i try to reboot, then I<br>start all over. Has anyone any idea why the devices/software switch<br>positions? Could it be the bios?<br><br>tia,<br>mark<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TriLUG mailing list<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug">http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug</a><br></pre>
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