[Discuss] multi-port NICs

[Justin Weissig]

Additionally, I can weigh in on Fedora / Redhat ES setups. We have
tons of servers with multi-port nics. Under
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ using the ifcfg-eth* files you can
tell which interface should be assigned to a specific MAC.

-jw

On 8/17/06, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> On 2006-08-16 23:39-0700 R. McFarlane wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> >        Has anyone here on the list had any success using a multi-port PCI
> > NIC? I see on the internet somewhere last week, that there was (or is) a 4
> > port PCI NIC. Currently I have 4 NICs in my firewall and I think it equates
> > to 3 different chipsets. I have heard of some linux drivers that have a hard
> > time knowing which port is what on the card (eg : eth0 may be port 1 today
> > but upon reboot it is port 3), so I was wondering if anyone here has used or
> > is using such a card and what success or failures they have had.
>
> If you don't want to spend the money replacing perfectly good equipment,
> there are ways to control the port order for a multi-nic situation.  For
> example, on Debian you can force a particular order by the order of the NIC
> modules mentioned in /etc/modules. That only handles the case of different
> modules for different NICs, but I have heard of more powerful methods (but
> never investigated them further because my multi-nic situation can be dealt
> with using the /etc/modules method).
>
> Alan
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