strange tcpip problem: SOLVED!!

[Chuck Karish]

In article <843 at rufus.UUCP> drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
|In article <1991Jun12.230426.22643 at milton.u.washington.edu>
|eliot at engr.washington.edu (Eliot Lim) writes:
||I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but if you move your ethernet
||card, the OS will assign it a new hardware address and leave the old one
||and treat it as a device that has gone offline.  
|
|Feature.  How else could it work?  Consider a scenario ...
|
|Now, when the machine comes up, I really want it to remember that the
|slot 4 Ethernet card is on network B, not go playing guessing games.
|Any method that didn't make the adapter definitions slot dependent
|would cause icky problems in such scenarios...
|
|How do other systems handle this?

Record the cards' Ethernet ID numbers, and query them at boot time?
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