This is all pretty interesting, though it seems like you'd only need to cobble together a shell script to do what you're after. The ifconfig command seems happy to tell you the MAC address of a specified interface.. It seems like an already present prototyping environment for this type of configuration is at hand.
louie > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like > >> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int" > > I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface > > namespace that only work with ifconfig. If you want ifconfig to match > > I agree, but there is another option: make such things not ifconfig-specific. > I mean that it could be done though renaming the interface into the some > lladdr-dependent name with fixed format. For example, > > ifconfig fxp0 llname > > will rename fxp0 into hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c. As far as we know the format and > MAC-address we could then do > > ifconfig hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c name pppoeint > > This could be implemented easely right now and then automated though /etc/rc* > > Actually the discussing feature is long time expected one, so it would be nice > to have it implemented finally :) > > Sincerely, > Alex Semenyaka > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
