I have a system with multiple, multi port nics. One is an intel dual port pci-e x4 gig nic, the other an intel quad port pci-e x4 gig nic. What I'm seeing is the ports on these nics loading out of order and in between the ports on the other multi port nic
one would expect the ports on each nic to be loaded sequentially as in dual nic loaded as eth1 + eth2 and quad nic then loaded as eth3-eth6. instead its loading the quad port as eth1, eth3,eth4 and eth6 with the ports from the dual port nic as eth2 and eth5.