On Sunday 05 March 2006 20:02, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Hmmm.... > > I noticed that for some reason or another, that the network > Interface cards (NIC) are searched by finding NIC's on the PCI > bus before finding NICs on the motherboard? > > This screwed up things for me of which by default, I use my > motherboard on-board NIC's first as the PCI based NICs are > assigned for other uses. Is there a way to force which eth0, > eth1 boards are being assigned to by my own preferences? > The Administration->Network gui configurator does not allow > me any options to change the eth0, eth1 assignments or > to declare which of the eth0 or eth1 assignments to use as > default or am I mistaken? > > The reason I noticed it was becuase on boot up, the eth0 is > assignment is used for accessing the network of which eth1 > is the one actually connected to the LAN. > > Note that I am running XEN if this has anything to do with it... > > Please advise! > > Kind regards, > Dan YYMV, but on the mb I'm currently running with, if I go into the BIOS and *deselect* 'Use onboard LAN' or whatever it call it, I still get both NICs, but I get the PCI card first. *Enabling* 'Use onboard LAN' gets me the onboard NIC. <shrug> *Gives up on the weirder intricasies of hardware and heads back to PHP, MySQL, DHTML and JavaScript. Why did I ever agree to do this &^^%$£$^$$^^% site???? -- Tony
