/etc/path_to_inst
you can renumber the device instance numbers
"/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1734,11a9@0" 4 "ixgbe" "/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1734,11a9@0,1" 5 "ixgbe"to
"/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1734,11a9@0" 0 "ixgbe" "/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1734,11a9@0,1" 1 "ixgbe"reboot with reconfigure
touch /reconfigure
or boot -r