Add a potential future problem I can see with metric calculation and interfaces that change often.

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

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 - oldnet[bridging]: Review setting of bridge configuration on dynamic interface add
 
 - Document rc-depend binary.
+
+- _ifindex is not a reliable means of calculating metrics:
+	_ifindex is used for calculating metrics for new devices but has a major
+	problem: Since it's only the nth entry in /proc/net/dev
+	And devices may be removed from that file, and reordered, you won't always
+	get the same result.
+	If you do:
+	- add eth0 - _ifindex (eth0=0)
+	- add vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1)
+	- add vlan2 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1,vlan2=2)
+	- rem vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1)
+	- add vlan3 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1,vlan3=2)
+	Now your routing table has entries for both vlan2 and vlan3 with a metric of 2.
+