[oclug] network issue with Debian Woody

[Christian Mautner]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:57:35AM -0400, Dennis Gardner wrote:
> Thanks very much for that command.  Looks like I can force the cards to 
> whatever I want.  However, do you happen to know why they come up the 
> order they do?  According to the info I got from Milan Budimirovic the 
> order within /etc/modules is important.  Do drivers that are compiled in 
> take priority over modules?  Suppose both card drivers were included in 
> the kernel, which one would come up as eth0 and which one would come up as 
> eth1 in that case?

For all practical purposes it's undefined. Do not rely on some
heuristics, as they might change with the next kernel upgrade.

chm.

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