On Apr 16, 2013, at 20:36, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:08:00AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Since people keep asking about this; maybe it's time we added a hint >> to the bus code that allows for the unit to be set based on the pci >> bus / slot / etc. > > I don't see how that would address Willy's request. Neither the unit > number or the if_index of an interface effects its order in > getifaddrs() output. > > With modern bus hierarchies, you probably don't want to use the unit > anyway as it loses too much information. Some along the lines of > Fedora's Consistent Network Device Naming would likely be more useful. > That would be fairly easy to implement.
I've been using the ifconfig_XXX_name setting in rc.conf for years now, which at works fine, at least for me. E.g.: ifconfig_em0_name="if_ext" ifconfig_em1_name="if_lan" ifconfig_ral0_name="if_wifi" However, if bus enumeration would randomly swap em0 and em1, for example, this would break down. Linux usually just fixes a specific interface name to a hardware address, e.g. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 on a CentOS box has: DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" HWADDR="00:0C:29:65:E4:E3" ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
