On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Giles Coochey <giles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/10/2010 10:36, John Doe wrote:
>
> From: Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id
> represents which physical port. Any way to find this?
>
> Unless you are 100% sure the nics detection follow a sequential order that
> matches the nics physical ports order, I think you will have to test them
> one at
> a time...
>
> JD
>
> Not sure whether this is true for all operating systems, but in many systems
> I have come across the following ordering convention:
>
> * Onboard NIC's get listed first, e.g. eth0, eth1.
> * First PCI bus gets listsed next, starting at slot 1... e.g. eth1, eth2
Didn't happen
> * If there are multiple interfaces per card then they are ordered in
> increasing MAC address value.
Might be true but never tested. Planning to test this.
Paras.
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