> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:06:28 +0200 (MET DST) 
>  > My solution is to distinguish the cards by MAC address in netstart,
>  > "ifconfig -a" will tell you "who is who".
>  > It's useful with multiple PCI cards too.
> 
> That's still pretty crufty... The Right Thing should just happen ... i.e. 
> the ordering of the cards should not change across reboots.  I would 
> definitely classify the observed behavior as a bug.

If card dies unexpectedly, I need interface names preserved too
(I build routers).

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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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