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Char devices for network interfaces

Char devices for network interfaces

Posted Oct 15, 2009 17:46 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Char devices for network interfaces by Banis
Parent article: Char devices for network interfaces

ethtool -p ethX is your friend, for many cards it will blink a light on the card so you can identify which interface it is.


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Char devices for network interfaces

Posted Oct 15, 2009 19:47 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

That's nice but it doesn't really work for a large number of servers.

Char devices for network interfaces

Posted Oct 15, 2009 19:59 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

which is why my current builds remove udev ;-)

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