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Subject: i386/115930: Dell nic enumeration problem
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>Number:         115930
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Dell nic enumeration problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 29 20:10:02 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Patrick Oonk
>Release:        6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
ICTU
>Environment:
>Description:
On Dell 1955 servers (and others) the network adapters are not enumerated
right. Physical port 1 becomes em1 and port 2 becomes em0. This is pretty annoying  already, but makes it very hard to roll out a network installed farm and makes things confusing.

There's a DELL Document that describes the problem and solutions for FreeBSD,
but I could not find any for FreeBSD:

http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


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