Re: [eepro100-bug] binding eth0 to a particular card
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Kallol Biswas wrote: > Is there a way to bind eth0 to a particular PCI slot/card in > linux? No. The detection order is well defined. For many technical reasons you can't say "the NIC in PCI slot 3 should be named eth23". If it's important that a specific NIC handles a connection in a changing environment, set up the configuration based on the station (MAC) address rather than the "eth*" name. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993