IBM POWER-LE LPAR had eth0 and eth1 network interfaces swap around on reboot

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Issue

  • IBM POWER-LE LPAR had eth0 and eth1 network interfaces swap around on reboot
  • This only happens with RHEL 7, on RHEL 8 the network names are different like ens1p0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • IBM POWER Little Endian (ppc64le) architecture
    • IBM POWER8
    • IBM POWER8 emulated on POWER9
  • ibmveth network interfaces

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