On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:14:05PM -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. > > The identification problem gets worse when adding a third NIC, after > sorting out the first two NICs. Frequently the eth0 or eth1 assignments > for the first two NICs change. There are tricks to configure based on the MAC address of your interface instead of on its place in the probe. Perhaps googling on that will help. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/