[Gllug] NICs on RHEL 4.0

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On 9 Nov 2006, damion yates verbalised:
> This actual query is one I used to ask when interviewing for sysadmins
> as the rules for what order a card is picked up varied as in different
> releases of Linux, so it would show how long the candidate had used
> Linux and if they'd had to deal with this before.  Old (1.* or 2.0.*)
> kernels, assuming cards using the same driver, would base it on lowest
> interupt first, sadly PnP mess or random firmware startups from cold,
> or warm reboot could move this.

These days, thank god, you can forget all that crap and use udev's
network-interface renaming to rename the damn things based on attributes
plucked from sysfs.

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