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AIX 4.43? do you mean 4.3.3? (oslevel)
If a card was added after AIX was installed then when you restore the cards may be discovered and configured in another order, so the ent that used to be entx is now enty and the ent that used to be enty will now be entx.
Yes, the ent device is the physical adapter and the en and et devices are the available interfaces that are available on the adapter.
You can only configure one en interface OR one et interface per ent device.
I've never met a system that uses the et interface, always use only the en interface.
The et interface is some old, never used, ethernet standard.
HTH.