[rescue] New acquisition... (AIX)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:19:27PM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:17:11 -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > because the device-probe stuff changed.  Every other Unix I've ever
> > used (aside from AIX, which also does the lame enX naming) uses device
> > names specifically to avoid this problem.
> 
> Actually they only half do it (which is probably good enough). If you
> have two hme's in a Sun box, they're 'hme0' and 'hme1'.

And determining which device name refers to which NIC on multiple-NIC
Sun boxes with certain revs of GigE and CDDI can, I'm told, be ...
"interesting."


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