Dual NIC - device assign problem

[Jörg Ebeling <joerg.ebeling@shbe.net>]

HiHo,

I've a Tyan S4882 with a Broadcom Dual NIC controller on Board.

The NIC module "tg3" loads so far but assigns the ethernet devices 
(eth0/eth1) randomly to the NICs.

First I thought it would be a noob problem but after parsing (nearly the 
whole) google I still found no real solution.

My hope in a i.e. "MAC address selection module option" is gone and I 
saw/read that Dual NIC's seem to have that problem in general (ifup/down 
says such stuff in the man page).

The mapping solution which is proposed by ifupdown, doesn't makes me 
happy too, because I need the ethernet device names later on in my 
shorewall. Well it could be made via scripts and shorewall variables, 
but it sounds like the wrong way for me.

Any help/suggestions ?