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On 15/10/2010 10:36, John Doe wrote:
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<pre wrap="">From: Paras pradhan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pradhanparas@gmail.com"><pradhanparas@gmail.com></a>
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<pre wrap="">I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id
represents which physical port. Any way to find this?
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Unless you are 100% sure the nics detection follow a sequential order that
matches the nics physical ports order, I think you will have to test them one at
a time...
JD
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Not sure whether this is true for all operating systems, but in many
systems I have come across the following ordering convention:<br>
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* Onboard NIC's get listed first, e.g. eth0, eth1.<br>
* First PCI bus gets listsed next, starting at slot 1... e.g. eth1,
eth2<br>
* If there are multiple interfaces per card then they are ordered in
increasing MAC address value.<br>
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