15 Oct
2010
15 Oct
'10
8:48 a.m.
On 15/10/2010 10:36, John Doe wrote:
From: Paras pradhanpradhanparas@gmail.com
I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id represents which physical port. Any way to find this?
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
Not sure whether this is true for all operating systems, but in many systems I have come across the following ordering convention:
* Onboard NIC's get listed first, e.g. eth0, eth1. * First PCI bus gets listsed next, starting at slot 1... e.g. eth1, eth2 * If there are multiple interfaces per card then they are ordered in increasing MAC address value.