bge numbering

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, January 25, 2013 3:46:10 am Daniel Braniss wrote:
> Hi,
> this server, a Dell R720 has 4 bge on board,
>      Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x5720000
>      bge0: APE FW version: NCSI v1.1.7.0
>      bge0: CHIP ID 0x05720000; ASIC REV 0x5720; CHIP REV 0x57200; PCI-E
>      miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>      ...
> 
> I have connected the ethernet to port labeled 0, but it appears
> as bge2, how can this be corrected?

It can't really.  The order of PCI devices is determined by the layout of the 
PCI device hierarchy which is generally determined by the physical traces on 
your motherboard.

-- 
John Baldwin