ethernet id problem

[tamer abdalla]

dear all

im having a problem with my ethernet ports id on the es45 tru64

the case is i have two cards one quad and one dual which i need their ids to be from ee0 to ee5 but their ids are ee0 ee1 ee5 ee6 ee8 ee9 .... so they are not consecutive which is causing me a big problem


can anybody help?

[Arch_Muthiah]

Hi,

In Tru64 UNIX, component names are designed to be unique. Some hardware components derive their unique names based on their physical location. In particular, most buses and controllers derive their system-wide unique name from their physical location in the system. If you move such a component from one physical location in the system to another, it might appear as a new device, with a new name, when you subsequently reboot the system.

Component is assigned a persistence type
and persistence location based on its physical location. The persistence type can be a network controller or a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bus providing a series of slots. The persistence location of a component can be the logical address of a particular slot on a bus, such as
slot 2 on PCI bus 1 or a main bus location.

Use #/sbin/hwmgr show name command to see the component and its physical locations, you can rename if you want using #/sbin/hwmgr remove name -entry ee0, but
HP recommends that you let your system dynamically assign component names.
After reboot, the persistent names are recreated. The new names are assigned in the order in which the hardware is probed.
For example, ee0 is assigned to the first NIC discovered during hardware probe, ee1 is assigned to the next, and so on until all the components are discovered.


Archunan