14 Oct
2006
14 Oct
'06
9:54 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, cl@isbd.net wrote:
If a system has more than one NIC then what happens by default regarding connecting to thre resto f the local network.
Does it simply choose the first NIC that 'appears' during boot to be the one that is used for 'itself'?
This almost certainly varies from distro to distro. On FC4, the default route is, by default, the last interface to be brought up. The order in which the interfaces are brought up is determined by a line in /etc/init.d/network that says
LANG=C sort -k 1,1 -k 2n | \
which (I think) sorts them into alphabetical order of the interface type (e.g. eth, ppp, usb) then into numerical order of their number (e.g. eth0, eth1, ppp0, ppp1, usb0, usb1.)
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HTH
Dan Hatton
http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/