Quoting CG Haravata ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> from our experinece, the one nearer the processor is eth0 in terms of the
> pci slot, the one second farthest is eth1, and so on...

It really all depends on the way the driver is written -- which means 
that different drivers probably have different heuristics.  Most often
(for PCI-type ethernet devices), device numbers seem to be assigned
first to the lowest-numbered PCI devices.  

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Rick Moen
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