As an a-side but in a similar vein:
How can one ensure that the physical interfaces get assigned to the same
interface consistently after rebooting. Is the only way to explicitly specify
the physical interface/physical hardware address combination as a kernel
parameter.
On a firewall I have i am only slightly paranoid that the machine may come up
after a power failure and re-assign the physical interfaces differently. Up
until now all the interfaces have had different drivers so it has not been an
issue. module aliases have ensured eth1 does not come up as eth0 and so on.
ideas?