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Hi Colin,
What Dell is would like here is that this happens automatically for PowerEdge machines. I don't think it matters if they need to put 'biosdevname=1' in the kernel cmdline to make it happen, but then this is just pushed off as an installer bug.
Just so we're clear on the user impact, biosdevname is a technology mostly developed by Dell that puts the cards in a predictable order and fixes the problem of users having the confusing situation of eth0 being the add on card, and eth1 being the on board NIC. Or worse, having eth[13] be one card, and eth[24] be another card, or having it differ from machine model to machine model, etc. Biosdevname cuts down on the confusion for these users, and we would like Ubuntu server users to have a good experience out of the box rather than having to trawl documentation or search the Internet afterward install for a fix. A few other distros are already doing this by default for PowerEdge machines so without this feature request Ubuntu serve rwill fall behind in terms of user experience.