Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:37:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Fred Clift <fred@veriohosting.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changed pci bus probe order from 3.2 to 4.0 -- ideas? Message-ID: <200006011637.SAA66853@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006010951380.4504-100000@vespa.orem.iserver.com> from Fred Clift at "Jun 1, 2000 09:54:23 am"
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... > The problem is that the cards get swapped. ... > It's a long story as to why switching cables, or changing which card gets > which IP address isn't really a good solution. The short answer is that i suppose the only place where you use the actual card names is the firewall config and rc.conf -- can't you just make these scripts fetch the ethernet address of the card(s), set a shell variable with the name of the good card, and go ahead with that ? I did something similar in picobsd to make the same floppy recognise the hardware on different systems. Something like (in /etc/rc): n_ether="" for main_if in `ifconfig -l` ; do set `ifconfig $main_if` while [ "$1" != "" ] ; do if [ $1 = "ether" ] ; then main_ether=$2 break 2 else shift fi done done At which point $main_ether contains the ethernet address of your first ethernet interface and you can base decisions on that... cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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