Thanks for the explanation. So there's no way to determine this in advance.. I must build a script that contains my own mapping between MAC addresses and the wanted interface names and run it after each driver load, rename the interfaces if necessary. It seems quite wrong, don't you agree? And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a good reason for that? Yony
_____ From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org; freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which you like to swap their minor numbers: ifconfig em0 name tmp ifconfig em1 name em0 ifconfig em0 name em1 or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces: ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0 ifconfig em0 name gigaEthernet0 ifconfig fastEthernet0 192.168.1.0/24 Yony Yossef wrote: -----Original Message----- From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org; freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran Liss Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints? you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name <your-name-here>' to achieve the same affect Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfig you suggested and the effect it will cause. Can you please explain it? Yony Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0 and pci0:19 with unit number 1. Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? My cards are: mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 So I've tried: hint.mtnic.0.at="pci0:16" hint.mtnic.1.at="pci0:19" but it doesn't work. They keep switching arbitrarily. I'm using FreeBSD 7.0. Thanks Yony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" <mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org> -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli <mailto:h...@sepehrs.com> <h...@sepehrs.com> Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" <mailto:freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org> -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli <mailto:h...@sepehrs.com> <h...@sepehrs.com> Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
