mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, aeb@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: NICs trading places ?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 15:41:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030328234114.GA992@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030328232022.GA12005@win.tue.nl>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-28 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-28 22:10 Dave Jones
2003-03-28 22:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-28 22:15 ` jjs
2003-03-28 22:25 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-28 22:27   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-28 22:34   ` Dave Jones
2003-03-28 22:48 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-28 23:02   ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-28 23:20     ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-28 23:41       ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-03-28 23:56         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-29  0:03           ` Greg KH
2003-03-29  9:20   ` Marc Zyngier
2003-03-28 23:30 ` Dax Kelson
2003-03-28 23:42   ` Sean Neakums
     [not found] <20030328221037.GB25846@suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-29  4:47 ` Andi Kleen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20030328234114.GA992@kroah.com \
    --to=greg@kroah.com \
    --cc=aeb@cwi.nl \
    --cc=aebr@win.tue.nl \
    --cc=akpm@digeo.com \
    --cc=davej@codemonkey.org.uk \
    --cc=jgarzik@pobox.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®