severity 350183 serious thanks Motherboards today commonly come with firewire ports. As there is an ethernet driver for this, this means that if the driver is available, common user systems are going to have more than one NIC, and possibly several, as sound cards also frequently have them.
Having debian-installer see devices one way and the next boot having the devices in some other order (with the config files set up for the d-i order) is not a releaseable state. If udev can't provide this basic feature in time for release, then we should be looking at other options. One of which would have d-i set up mappings from MAC addresses to configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, similar to the examples in ifupdown. This isn't something that the average end user should ever have to set up, and certainly will confuse a lot of existing users.
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