hiya >> Currently interface are assigned as follows: [...] >> Who knows how long this is going to stay this way? Next kernelrelease? >> Next hardware revision?
> Forever? ... or possibly just until I decide to put in a new network card, shuffling around the order of enumeration during the next install. (Upgrading a BL460/BL480 from 2 to 4 'internal' NICs is lots of fun. You put in a quad-port nic which disables the two internal ports. At least I read that it works this way.) > Well, at least industry acknowledged the problem, and there even seem to > be some workarounds related to PXE stuff: > http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v4.pdf That's quite a nice read. Thank you. tschüß thomas