> I think it is still only for certain Dell models and it probably only > works with new 6.2 installs, but it is a badly needed capability to be > able to predictably map the device/config names to the matching > physical NICs. I was wondering about this because the T3500 I'm setting up with fresh 6.2 installs have eth0. The whitepaper linked here http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ explains it in detail, and indeed the T3500 is listed as not supporting under RHEL6.1 SMBIOS version is 2.5 according dmidecode and they say 2.6 is required.