From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 00:55:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536FA16A4DA for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A5243D46 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:55:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp226-110.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.226.110]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7M0tWLB087004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:25:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:25:26 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com> In-Reply-To: <44EA4C70.2050609@forrie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608221025.27192.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.312 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Forrest Aldrich Subject: Re: Order of devices listed in "ifconfig" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:55:43 -0000 --nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6lX/5ZPcIHs/zowRAs96AJ4vk7j6oxC2QIs5f966CyDsYLLKLwCfaBBz IKGJXACWmIpw1nswZrvj2dQ= =JmQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1504600.uNpPHM3RIC--