Order of devices listed in "ifconfig"

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 09:44, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> The devices would normally appear "in order" (similar to Linux) where
> they are physically attached... first, em0 and em1 would be the
> motherboard NICs, then any PCI cards.

I believe they're probed in order, but it's entirely up to your motherboard 
vendor as to which order that actually is - there's no way for the OS to 
differentiate between an onboard and a PCI card.

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