diff -rup systemd-232/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c systemd-232-new/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c
--- systemd-232/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c	2016-11-03 10:16:42.000000000 -0700
+++ systemd-232-new/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c	2016-11-17 18:04:09.560612381 -0800
@@ -153,6 +153,20 @@ static int dev_pci_onboard(struct udev_d
         idx = strtoul(attr, NULL, 0);
         if (idx <= 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
+        if (idx >> 24) {
+                unsigned domain, bus, slot, func;
+                /*
+                 * VMware acpi_index format:
+                 * |31 instance 24|23     16|15     8|7    3|2    0|
+                 * |    number    | domain? |   bus  | slot | func |
+                 * 
+                 * Let's use instance number to get enoX human readable
+                 */
+                if (sscanf(udev_device_get_sysname(names->pcidev), "%x:%x:%x.%u", &domain, &bus, &slot, &func) != 4)
+                        return -ENOENT;
+                if ((idx & 0xffff) == ((bus << 8) | (slot << 3) | func))
+                        idx >>= 24;
+        }
 
         /* Some BIOSes report rubbish indexes that are excessively high (2^24-1 is an index VMware likes to report for
          * example). Let's define a cut-off where we don't consider the index reliable anymore. We pick some arbitrary