> Does anyone know if its possible to affect the order 
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> of interface initialization on boot?  I have a 
> situation where I'd like a local (static) ether interface 
> to be established before a dhcp request is made
> in order to do an nsupdate on the local channel
> when the dhcp is established.

No.  There is a hierarchy for specific types of interfaces (like
vlans and such), but not for the raw basic types.  That is just
alphabetic.

However you can insert ! commands into any of the files at any time,
to do additional tasks that you want.