Hi!
You can load the module and specify the I/O address of each mii. This
way you'll allways get the same eth for a given I/O. Read the module's
fine manual :)
Regards,
Nuno Silva
Ian S. Nelson wrote:
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> The kernel is 2.4.18, from Redhat. I've looked at some of the code and I
> think this might actually be a hardware bug. I'm helping setup a 3 port
> firewall, I'm remote so I haven't been hands on, the guy has a quad
> ethernet card in it. Between kernel installs eth0, eth1, eth2, and eth3
> seem to change which socket on the card they are.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this before? The hardware didn't change and
> to my knowledge no BIOS changes have happened. I'd assume that the PCI
> bus would be enumerated the same each time and that the kernel, barring
> changes to PCI device discovery, would give the same ethernet channel to
> the same socket each time. It boots consistently when we figure out
> what port is what.
>
> In this particular case it's potentially a big security concern, if we
> swapped the DMZ and protected zones and didn't notice then his network
> might be exposed.
>
>
> thanks,
> Ian
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