Ethernet Probe Order 2006-01-05 - By Ed Wilts
Back
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 07:28:54PM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> A 10/100 Ethernet cable is a hands-on consumer interface. The rule
> "start at CPU, then move down the backplane in slot order" makes
> perfect sense. Anyone supporting dozens of two-ported servers
> (one port for the WAN, one port for the LAN), each in a different
> [school] building miles apart, appreciates this.
Anyone who can understand all the various methods vendors to number
their slots and can understand them all is a better person than I am.
When you start dealing with multiple PCI busses in the same system, it
starts to get a bit tricky. I've seen systems where the order is most
definitely not predictable. I would not expect Red Hat to actually fix
this (but I've been wrong in the past and could be wrong again).
--
Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts@(protected)
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
--
Taroon-list mailing list
Taroon-list@(protected)
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
|
|
