simple question

[jarthda]

i have one that must be so easy.
I have 80MB-memory-old intel board im playing with as DSL router which itslef is a node of Covad router.
My two nic cards are installed. RedHat 7.2 has detected everything beautifully (accept old serial mouse - so i dont think I will be using X).
What I cant seem to find is a way to distinguish between
cards. if i can identify the names of the cards can I pass that as parameter to netconfig? Otherwise netconfig doesnt seem to know what card im setting.

thank you

jarthda

[gwenavirre]

I would watch the kernel boot up and try to catch which one is set to eth0 and eth1. Good luck!

[Bizza]

You could also look at the MAC addresses of the cards.

The MAC address is a 12 digit hex number thats unique to each card, it will look like 08-ba-de-54-de-26, or similar

Most of the time the MAC will be printed on the card.

Next run ifconfig eth0, then, ifconfig eth1. I think this will display the MAC address of each card, if not just run the man page for ifconfig and find which switch will.

As MACs are unique you can work out which card is which

Hope this helps