Thanks to the folks who replied. Consensus is that NETDEV_# entries
in /etc/rc.config are just environment variables. The order in
which they occur is the order you configured the controllers while using
netsetup.
NETDEV_# entries ARE in a one-to-one correlation with IF_CONFIG# entries.
One respondant noted that "The same physical interface may be assigned
to multiple NETDEV_#s to allow for aliases."
The most amusing (and true!!) response was from smt_at_corning.com, who noted:
"It's probably best for the sake of sanity to order them the same way
as the console firmware sees them."
Having nearly lost my sanity thru the course of a day spent with 4 systems,
each with 3 interfaces, each of whose interfaces are in a different physical
order in the enclosure, I heartily agree with this statement, though I have
not followed his fine advice!
A useful tidbit - to identify which interface is which, on DE500-AA controllers,
I do the following:
ifconfig tu0 speed 100
[run around and see which controller has a solid amber light lit]
ifconfig tu0 speed 10
[set the speed back to 10baseT, which is what we are currently using]
If you run at 100baseT, then you'd do the opposite. Do this for each
interface in the system, till you know which is where.
Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
Received on Mon Jul 21 1997 - 22:02:43 NZST