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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:25:26 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Subject:   Re: Order of devices listed in "ifconfig"
Message-ID:  <200608221025.27192.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com>
References:  <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com>

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On Tuesday 22 August 2006 09:44, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> The devices would normally appear "in order" (similar to Linux) where
> they are physically attached... first, em0 and em1 would be the
> motherboard NICs, then any PCI cards.

I believe they're probed in order, but it's entirely up to your motherboard=
=20
vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to=20
differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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