On 15/10/2010 10:36, John Doe wrote: > From: Paras pradhan<pradhanparas at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101015/73aaa431/attachment-0005.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5137 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101015/73aaa431/attachment-0005.p7s>