On 4/10/2017 2:27 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Without intent to contradict... I really would prefer them numbered > according to their bus address. Not in the order (or reverse order - as it > was once) of them been discovered. And if you add hardware with bus > address between those of eth0 and eth1, you will have newly added one > become eth1, and former eth1 becomes eth2. I know, it stems from old > idiotic habit to always look inside the boxes... call me an old UNIX > outcast. (No, don't, that would be a complement I unlikely deserve bus address is a somewhat nebulous concept on PCI, afaik, its not neccessarily slot specific. its even messier on things like USB -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz