...
> The problem is that the cards get swapped.
...
> It's a long story as to why switching cables, or changing which card gets
> which IP address isn't really a good solution. The short answer is that
i suppose the only place where you use the actual card names
is the firewall config and rc.conf -- can't you just make these
scripts fetch the ethernet address of the card(s), set a shell
variable with the name of the good card, and go ahead with that ?
I did something similar in picobsd to make the same floppy recognise
the hardware on different systems. Something like (in /etc/rc):
n_ether=""
for main_if in `ifconfig -l` ; do
set `ifconfig $main_if`
while [ "$1" != "" ] ; do
if [ $1 = "ether" ] ; then
main_ether=$2
break 2
else
shift
fi
done
done
At which point $main_ether contains the ethernet address of your
first ethernet interface and you can base decisions on that...
cheers
luigi
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