(Posted on behalf of Jordan Hargrave.)
Biosdevname is a utility used to help map Linux Ethernet devices to their physical location in a system. Traditionally in Linux, ethernet devices have been named ethX, which may or may not correspond to the Lan-on-Motherboard (LOM) numbering in the system. Biosdevname is a udev helper application that maps the original ethX names to location-specific names. This is useful when deploying multiple servers that require all ethernet names to be the same. The names are of the form eX_vf for embedded slots and pXpY_vf for NICs in PCI slots.
The latest release of biosdevname 0.6.1 fixes issues on some cards that support multiple devices per PCI Bus:Device:Function and merges in some upstream changes from RedHat.
This version will be available in future OS releases from Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu.
The latest version of biosdevname is available from http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname or the git repository: http://linux.dell.com/git/biosdevname.git