Re: Two NICs

From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:35:11 -0400

Harold Weissman wrote:

I have a box running a 2.6.21 kernel. The box has two NICs. How
can I find which NIC as been assigned to eth0, and which to eth1? I know
that ifconfig returns the MAC address of each eth* device - but the
problem is that I do not know what MAC address corresponds to what NIC to
begin with.

My experience is that the nic closest to the cpu is the lowest numbered
device. Holds true on every box I admin. Not a linux quirk, it's all
hardware...

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Jerry McBride
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