Riley Williams wrote:
>
> Hi David, Alan.
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > To be honest, I don't think any of it's necessary in the kernel.
> > The initial device ordering isn't non-deterministic, so it
> > should suffice to simply work out which eth%d you have to pass
> > to the kernel on the command line to get it to work nicely on
> > your network. Perhaps you may have to recalculate that each time
> > you change your BIOS/kernel, but it's not going to change very
> > often.
>
> Probably more useful would be a facility that would answer queries
> along the lines of "Which network port last received a packet from an
> IP address in network A.B.C.D/X ?" together with a tool that would
> send those queries and set up the routing table from the result.
hmmm, that involves putting the NIC into promisc mode, and even then
you're not guaranteed any traffic. You might be talking to a switch.
Jeff
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