On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:52:25AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > As to how the cards are enumerated...unless the system was installed > with the new NIC already there, it depends on how the mobo scans the > buses. For example, on Dell 2950s, the on-board NICs are seen first, > followed by the PCI cards. On the (more or less equivalent) Dell > 1950s, PCI NICs are seen before the on-board NICs. Go figure. > > Once they're found and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX scripts > are created, the HWADDR in those files pretty much keeps things tied > together. If you stuff in a new NIC, it _should_ be the next one in > sequence, regardless which bus it's on as the system generally honors > existing configs (note I said "generally"). <shameless plug> A whitepaper I wrote about this problem: http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v4.pdf http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/24/357 http://lwn.net/Articles/356900/ My team is currently trying to get code added to be able to use additional, prettier names, such as "Embedded_NIC_1", to refer to the device names silkscreened on the chassis. The threads above show we've been trying to get better solutions into the kernel and userspace for several years... </shameless plug> -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
