From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 4:33:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F6E37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 04:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from fresalo.cs.poste.it (fresalo.cs.poste.it [62.241.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D8443FBF for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 04:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) Received: from knute.cs.poste.it (192.168.44.146) by fresalo.cs.poste.it (5.5.053.1) id 3E36CC4B00026B00; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:33:37 +0100 Received: (from andrea@localhost) by knute.cs.poste.it (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1HCU98V009012; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:30:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrea.franceschini@postecom.it) X-Authentication-Warning: knute.cs.poste.it: andrea set sender to andrea.franceschini@postecom.it using -f Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:30:09 +0100 From: Andrea Franceschini To: Terry Todd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC numbering Message-ID: <20030217123009.GA8983@postecom.it> References: <20030215082835.A34779@badger.tltodd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030215082835.A34779@badger.tltodd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:28:35AM -0600, Terry Todd wrote: > When you have more than one of the same type of NIC card in one > machine is there a way to insure that the NIC numbering remains > attached to the same card / MAC address if more cards are added or > they are moved around? > > TIA, > Terry Todd > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I had the same problem with ATA drives on NetBSD. Maybe you could define the NICs statically in the kernel file... ( i don't remember if it is still possible fro PCI devices.) Hope it helps. Bye To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message