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

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

In my experience, the NIC that is closer to the keyboard connector is
eth0. I don't know if that's a standard or just plain luck :)

Hardware 3com NICs (3c90x) and various motherboards (Soyo, PC Chips,
and no-brand-made-somewhere-in-asia).

Bye!

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:35:40 -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?
>

Federico Voges
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