Re: Re-ordering default Vortex/Cyclone eth{x} assignments (again)
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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On Sat, 17 May 2003, David Ruggiero wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2003, Donald Becker wrote:
> Okay, I feel I may be beating a dead horse here, but I'm still confused.
> I've got a system with 4 NICs; two are 3c905Bs and two are 3c900s. I simply
> want to reverse the names assigned to the cards that are currently being
> assigned names eth2 and eth1 (long story; can't just swap cables, and am
> NOT using modules because this is a static kernel for a firewall). These
> two particular cards are consistently addressed at ioports 0xA000 and
> 0xA400, with IRQs 10 and 4 respectively; none of which I need to change - I
> *just* want to assign them different eth{X} names than they're getting now.
>
> Nothing in the current Scyld Vortex docs says that adding this to lilo.conf
> won't work (in fact, it implies it will work just fine):
> append="ether=4,0xa400,eth1 ether=10,0xa000,eth2"
I don't see where it implies that it will work fine.
The web page notes "card ordering is set by the PCI BIOS".
> If I'm reading DB's recent postings here correctly, what I'm trying to do
> is either impossible or very inadvisable. If so, I need to hear that
> :),
It may be possible to change the names after the card is detected, but
that is a very bad idea.
If you must match an IP address to a specific MAC address, use the MAC
address rather than the name to identify that interface.
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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
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