relationship between eth and pci device

C M Reinehr cmr at amsent.com
Mon Oct 13 11:30:53 PDT 2008


Vu,

On Mon 13 October 2008 12:34, vu pham wrote:
> I am looking for which PCI device an ethernet device is. Starting with
> lspic, I have
>
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> 04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 80003ES2LAN Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
> 0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 06)
> 0b:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (rev 06)
>
>
> Then I compare with dmesg,
> 0000:02:02.0: eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x4) 00:1e:68:2f:59:4a
> 0000:02:02.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> 0000:02:02.0: eth0: MAC: 3, PHY: 5, PBA No: ffffff-0ff
> 0000:02:02.0: eth0: Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
>
> Go back to lspci and find out 02:02 is the
> 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6311ESB/6321ESB PCI Express
> Downstream Port E3 (rev 01)
>
>
> How do you find it ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu

One way which works for me is to look in /sys/bus/pci/devices/ and cd to the 
bus address from dmesg. You should find a file in this node such as net:eth0, 
net:eth1, etc. With this information 'ifconfig -a' will allow you to identify 
the individual interface by the MAC id.

HTH

cmr

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