From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 11:44:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4DC1065672 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@opteqint.net) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CF58FC1A for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so89197wyb.13 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.89.202 with SMTP id c52mr2668592wef.84.1272626344310; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:19:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: dave@opteqint.net Received: by 10.216.28.137 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:18:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [196.210.160.165] From: Dave Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:18:44 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: e57e6839a53a61c1 Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Network Card Ordering X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:44:53 -0000 Hi all, I am using FreeBSD 7 and all my computers have built in intel lan cards. When you boot you get em0 and em1. On some pc's I add an additional network card which shows up as em2 and em3. The problem I have is that on certain hardware that network card will take the spaces em0 and em1, and the onboard cards will shuffle. Now for various reasons this is a problem - is there any way to specify/force cards on boot. I don't want to rename them because I can't tell when this will/wont happen; I would rather force it somehow to prefer the onboard cards? Thanks for the help Dave