Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:32:01 +0800 (SGT) From: chas <panda@peace.com.my> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How does FBSD choose which NIC to make primary ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980417105416.00eabfd0@peace.com.my>
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Initially, I had one 3C3509 NIC (ISA) at ep0. Everything was working fine. I added a 3C900 (PCI) and it was recognised immediately at vx0. (Hey, this is better than PnP ;) On reboot, I specified an ifconfig for ep0 but not vx0 in /etc/rc.conf. ifconfig -a showed that ep0 was indeed active but no network communications were possible with this interface. So, I changed /etc/rc.conf to use vx0 and on next reboot, full communications were restored. I'm just wondering : how does FBSD decide which card should be used (and hence specified in /etc/rc.conf) ? Thank you, chas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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