John A. Goebel responded to me...
|> I have bought a 4 port card from
|> Soekris to see if having all the
|> ports on one card solves the problem,
|> but haven't gotten to test it yet.
|
|I won't think it would because it a matter of IRQ at boottime handling, right?
|Which port gets the first IRQ is going to get eth0, etc.
My hope is that the way IRQs get
assigned on the card is better
than the way they get assigned by
the PCI slots.