On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 04:11 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>> I'd have to agree here. I like the BSD way of network device naming 
>> too.
>> Take linux for example, linux uses eth* for everything, which can be
>> extremely annoying because you can't really see at a first glance which
>> device is which (if you have different brands of nics in your box). And
>> by the way, ever nic name in *BSD has a manual page. try man 5 <nic
>> name> without the device number. Detailed enough for ya?
>
> yes. and try to predict what will be eth0 and what eth6 if you have 7
> same cards put :)
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	I have two cards and this threw me a bit.  I guess they get named 
by order of detection in Redhat 7.2, so, from the top of the box to the 
bottom.  Of course this might not always be the case.  I have two 
identical NICS in my box ( Intel Etherexpress ) so sometimes it's trial 
and error.

Ian

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