On 02/02/2011 11:00 AM, Jean H. Theoret 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? >
And what happens when one of your embeded interfaces fails so miserably you need to disable it from the BIOS, por example? (or maybe you needed to change the whole motherboard, and put one with one port less). You're just moving the issue aside, but it's still there on other very real cases. -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
