Two Identical PCI NICs, how to choose which is eth0 and which is eth1

Joel Hammer Joel
Mon May 17 11:43:31 PDT 2004


If memory serves, you can't.

The BIOS scans the hardware at startup and assigns such things. Maybe
there is some setting in the BIOS you can fiddle with.

You might try exchanging the cards in the motherboard.

Joel

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:35:40PM -0600, Jason Joines wrote:
> On a machine with two PCI NICS, how do you choose which is assigned to 
> eth0 and which is assigned to eth1?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason Joines
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