arbitrary ethernet devices?
Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@redhat.com)
Wed, 07 Aug 1996 17:15:33 -0400
Erik Troan and I just noticed that with kerneld (at least), ethernet
devices (at least) have to be accessed in order and be consecutive.
That is, say that you have an /etc/conf.modules file containing
alias eth5 3c509
kerneld will not load the module when you run "ifconfig eth5 <ip_address>",
and so ifconfig will respond "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device".
This appears to mean that interfaces must be brought up in order.
Is there any particular reason for this?
michaelkjohnson
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