Re: physical network port matchup to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*

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Proliant port labeled as 1 (of 2) = eth0
Porliant ported labeled as 2 (of 2) = eth1

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Chet Nichols III
<chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I'll usually find out what the MAC addresses of the ports are (usually from
> a sticker on the case somewhere, or on the card), and then from there you
> should be able to either compare and match the MAC address as listed in
> your
> ifcfg files (via the HWADDR variable), or, if the ifcfg files don't have
> it,
> you can look at the output of dmesg to determine which interfaces are going
> with which MACs as well.
>
> Hope that helps as a way to throw a couple options out there!
>
> Chet
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Dave Martini <martini1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have an HP proliant with two ethernet ports plus a pci
> > card with an additional two ethernet ports.
> > Is there a way to tell when you do an
> > # ifconfig -a
> >
> > or when you check the files in
> >
> > # /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> >
> > which ifcfg-eth0,eth1,eth2,eth3 file
> > corresponds to what physical port on the back of the machine?
> > My two internal built in ports on the HP proliant are numbered
> > 1 an 2 does this mean it will match up with eth1 and eth2?
> > My two ports on the pci card are not numbered.
> > Thank you.
> > Dave Martini
> > LLNL
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