Re: configuring multiple NIC's at boot
>>
>> the way this works is the first driver to be loaded gets eth0. So the
>> 3Com you
>> compiled into the kernel SHOULD be setup as eth0.
>
> It does now, but when I had support for both cards compiled into the
> kernel, the 3Com card did not get eth0, it got eth1 and the DSL's NIC got
> eth0 and I could not think of a way to control this. That is why I now
> have only the 3Com card's support built into the kernel, so it gets
> configured first. If I add another NIC later, I will probably have to
> also compile it as a module and have it get configured in
> /etc/init.d/local after the Kingston NIC's config lines. I just don't
> know if that is the correct way or the best way to do it.
>
yep, that is the way to do it.
Although /etc/modules is the usual place to list modules to be loaded at boot
time.
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