Re: How to order eth0, eth1, ... with Tornado cards?
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > > It's possible to rename network interfaces, but that is a Very Bad Idea. > > Could you elaborate on that? Why is that a very bad idea? Many reasons: The detection messages will not match later usage Removing and adding new interfaces and modules Calling the rename program more than once > Some boundary conditions: > > * the out-of-band processor on the motherboard only listens to > one of the NICs, so I cannot merely swap the cables. This is very common. - Only a few NIC chip models from 3Com and Intel support the out-of-band feature needed for IPMI and other management processors. - Gb Ethernet NICs consume too much power for Wake-On-LAN - Until recently Gb Ethernet NIC did not have PXE implementations > * Obviosly there is no way to change IRQ/memory address within > the BIOS or deactivate the unused NIC. Many BIOSes provide a way to deactivate on-board NICs. In a different section they may provide a way to influence the IRQ assignments (although sometimes not directly). -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex