[plug] Multiple ethernet cards, same driver

[Adam Ashley]

pci cards are number from 0 up, starting next to the cpu/agp slot. the
kernel and its drivers initialise cards from slot 0 working their way up

Adam

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:54 +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think this has come up before, but I don't remember if there was a
> solution...
> 
> If I have a machine with multiple ethernet interfaces, and each
> interface is the same type of PCI card (and therefore uses the same
> kernel module), is it guaranteed that the same cards will be eth0 and
> eth1 after each boot or power-on?  (Assuming x86 PC hardware)
> 
> If not, how do I make it so?
> 
> I'm interested specifically in the 8139too module.  It doesn't seem to
> take the io=0xAAA,0xBBB module parameter that would be used were these
> ISA cards, although I can't test that at the moment as they're in a live
> system.
> 
> Googling confirms over and over that multiple cards with one driver
> works fine, but I can't find anything that tells me that my machine
> won't come up one day with eth0 and eth1 swapped.
> 
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