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 ;)

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