On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:40:43PM -0500, Clay Fandre wrote:
> > Ahhh, you're right. How about looking in dmesg to see what each network interface is?
> > tsmcyf at lildeb:~$ dmesg | grep eth 
> > eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:D0:B7:43:D1:D4, IRQ 11.
> > eth1: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:10:A4:9A:50:76
> > tsmcyf at lildeb:~$ 
> 
> Unreliable.  dmesg reads from an 8k circular buffer, so machines
> which have long uptimes or use certain kernel functions will lose
> information from it.  (One of my servers uses the kernel RAID
> implementation.  6 RAID devices and each one of them spews a
> bazillion lines of messages as it starts up.  By the time the system
> finishes booting, dmesg shows _nothing_ except RAID trivia.)
>

Yea, yea. dmesg, /var/log/dmesg, syslog, whatever. You know what I mean.