Determining device names

Scott M. Stone sstone@taos.com
Tue Apr 11 16:35:13 2000


On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Orion Poplawski wrote:

> Pardon the newbie question.  I have have three Intel eepro100 interfaces in
> a machine.  How do I determine/control which will be eth0, eth1 and eth2?

I think you can manually control that by assigning I/O addresses to the
device names, but it's much easier to just let the kernel pick for you.
Then just plug the right cables in based on what the machine decides.
Works for me, at least :)

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@taos.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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