Quoting marc ([email protected]): > Like Rick I haven't encountered a spontaneous device name > re-order in the wild.
Just to be skeptical for a moment of my own wording, I probably _slightly_ overstated (at least by implication) what I've observed over the decades, here: I understood that, if you had a motherboard with dual e1000 NICs and suddenly added (or removed) a third ethernet port on a PCI-E card, whether it was also an e1000 NIC or not, you might expect to get a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ device assignment reshuffle. On reflection, I'm not sure I've ever seen, say, a server with a pair of e1000 NICs on the motherboard supplemented by an ethernet card with a Tigon tg3 chipset. In my own systems, and the ones I've used at work, we've always stuck with a single NIC chipset by preference, just on instinct. If you needed a third NIC on a dual-e1000 host, you plugged in an e1000 card. But honestly, I think this whole situation almost never arises in my own experience. In business, if you have a situation where dual-NIC motherboards don't suffice, you typically need a dedicated router, not a regular Linux host. I stand by my observation that a machine with multiple copies of the same NIC, especially (as we find for the last decade or so) they're integrated into the motherboard, you do _not_ see spontaneous device-assignment reshuffles. If it happens, I've never seen it, anyway. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
