On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jean H. Theoret <ve...@rac.ca> wrote: > This one's got me stumped for a few days now... > > How is it possible to control the network interface numbering assignment order? > > Here's my specific case: the box has 2 on-board Ethernet interfaces and > a 3rd one on a PCI-Express card. They come up as: > > re0: PCI-Express card > re1: on-board interface #1 > re2: on-board interface #2 > > A recent event had disabled the PCI card, and the remaining network > interfaces ended up being reassigned (upon the next reboot, of course) as: > > re0: on-board interface #1 > re1: on-board interface #2 > > Could this have been prevented by forcing network interface assignment > to on-board interface _first_, then the PCI card? Or is there a way to > bind network interface assignment to the adapter's MAC address as > numbering hint?
According to the guy who will bring his Consistent Network Device Naming to Fedora15 even numbering based on MAC address has it's weaknesses. See his comment to @not-a-fanboy dated January 26, 2011 at 10:13 am at http://domsch.com/blog/?p=455 It is not an answer to your question, I know ;)
