15 Apr
2010
15 Apr
'10
6:10 p.m.
On 4/15/2010 10:32 AM, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
in the olden days it was so easy, you had PCI cards and they were named by the slot number, starting with eth0 in PCI slot 1 and so on. Then came the inbuilt nics Then came the PCIx built nics Then came the PCI-e built nics
OUCH! ;-)
Then came blade servers with built-in nics you can't unplug because they're plugged to the blade center enclosure's internal switches :)
Worse, and probably more to the point of non-deterministic hardware detection, you can plug in a USB->ethernet adapter anytime or several in any order.
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