Re: which NIC is which

[Keith Morse <kgmorse mpcu com>]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:52:15PM -0700, John Telford wrote:
> : I'm building routers.  It's difficult to tell in advance which NIC will
> : be assigned eth0 and which will assigned eth1 when using two NICs.  Ping
> : testing usually clears up this simple problem.
> 
> It's largely voodoo that probably only the guy who wrote the pci
> bus scanning code understands.  You might as well get into the habit
> I got into on other platforms.  As you install the NICs, print a label
> with the MAC address of the card and attach it as you insert the cards.
> At that point, determining which card is which takes 5 seconds.
> 
> Additionally, it makes it easier for anyone who follows you to identify
> the various NICs in the machine.


So far, my limited multi-NIC host experience says that the eth0, eth1, ... 
labeling follows the pci bus labeling (slot1, slot2, ... so on)


The mac address labeling is an excellent idea BTW.