[fbx] Dreamplug ethernet ports are assigned randomly at boot as eth0 and eth1

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### These are annotations that I added.
### My setup is: Top ethernet port is disconnected. Bottom port is connected to router.
### /etc/network/interfaces assigns eth0 to 192.168.1.1, and uses dhcp for eth1.
### So I am hoping that eth1 will be assigned an address by my router. This means that I want the connected port to be interface eth1, not eth0.


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### First boot - I didn't see any logs related to the network interfaces.


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### Second boot - eth1 was assigned 192.168.1.133 by DHCP.

[....] Configuring network interfaces...[   41.023393] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

[   41.348339] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth1: link down
[   41.354416] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Listening on LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
Sending on   LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
[   44.448912] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth1: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[   44.458825] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.133 -- renewal in 41626 seconds.
done.

root@freedombox:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f0:ad:4e:02:35:d9
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
          inet addr:192.168.1.133  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe02:35da/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4028 (3.9 KiB)  TX bytes:1216 (1.1 KiB)
          Interrupt:15

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:7624 (7.4 KiB)  TX bytes:7624 (7.4 KiB)


[....] Deconfiguring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
Sending on   LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
done.

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### Third boot - eth1 was not assigned an address.

[....] Configuring network interfaces...[   40.999080] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth0: link down
[   41.005255] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

[   41.319504] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Listening on LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:d9
Sending on   LPF/eth1/f0:ad:4e:02:35:d9
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
[   44.092508] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.1 eth0: link up, 1000 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
[   44.102417] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
done.


root@freedombox:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f0:ad:4e:02:35:da
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe02:35da/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1312 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:448 (448.0 B)
          Interrupt:15

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr f0:ad:4e:02:35:d9
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:11

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5904 (5.7 KiB)  TX bytes:5904 (5.7 KiB)