Tulip based Network Adapter

[HO Soo-Khim]

Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Metod Kozelj wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, HO Soo-Khim wrote:
> > > Whenever I have two network adapters, one Tulip-based Network Adapter
> > > (DEC 21143) and
> > > one RTL8139 based Network Adapter (Both PCI). The moment I reboot the
> > > system, the system
> > > always bind eth0 to the Tulip based Network Adapter. Regardless of which
> > > PCI slot that I placed
> > > the Tulip-based Network Adapter (Can be IRQ 10 or 11).
> > >
> > > If I used two Tulip-based Network Adapters, the eth0 is alway bind to
> > > Network Adapter at IRQ 11.
> > > But with two RTL8139 based Network Adpaters, the eth0 is alway bind to
> > > the Network Adapter at
> > > IRQ 10.
> >
> > The order of NICs mapping to eth devices is bound to the order the drivers
> > are loaded. If the tulip driver is loaded prior to some other, then eth0
> > will be tulip card. The NICs, drivern by the same driver, are mapped to
> > eth devices according to their MAC I believe.
> 
> Correction: PCI drivers will detect all matching cards in PCI bus order.
> The order the probes are done for built-in drivers is set in
>   drivers/net/Space.c
> The order the probes are done for module drivers is typically set in
>  /etc/conf.modules.
> 
> [[ The 3c509 driver is unique in activating cards in MAC address order -- it
> uses the MAC address as the unique identifier when doing "contention-select"
> during the card detection process. ]]
> 
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Thanks for the response.

Yes, I've tried it on another system with two 3C595 NIC. eth0 goes for
the NIC
with the lower MAC. 

Regards,

HO Soo-Khim
sookhim@internet-appliance.com