On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, Martin Hanson wrote:
I managed to get this working.
It is a dirty hack and I REALLY wish FreeBSD would make documentation
as high a priority as the guys at OpenBSD.
It is difficult to locate correct and updated documentation, especially
about devd. Yes, the man page has information about devd, and devd.conf
even come with examples, but those examples are too sparsome to be of
any real use when things get just a little bit complicated.
It is extremely frustration to spend hour of hours of wasted time
getting something to work, not because it doesn't work, but simply
because you're "throwing stones in the dark" in the hopes of hitting
the right target - because the correct and comprehensive documentation
is lacking.
A quality product HAS to have correct, updated and comprehensive
documentation. This is one point that really makes the OpenBSD guys
stand out deserving laud applause.
We work at it, but it is difficult to cover everything. It would be
nice to have a section in the Handbook on devd. If you would like to
submit or work on something like that, I can help (I'm a doc committer).
attach 100 {
device-name "axge[0-9]+";
match "vendor" "0x0b95";
match "product" "0x1790";
match "sernum" "0000249B0DE00C";
# We need to wait a little for the interface to get up.
action "sleep 3";
# We don't know what number the interface has been assigned, but we know it
is from axgeX,
# so we get the X, use it in "ueX" and then rename the interface which is
then bound to the
# serialnumber, so the correct card will always get the right interface, ie.
our own, not ueX.
action "ifconfig ue`echo $device-name | tr -dc '[0-9]'` name olan";
action "ifconfig olan inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0";
};
I hope someone else might find this useful or perhaps even provide a cleaner
approach.
There are several similar ways to deal with the device name. For
example:
action "ifconfig `echo $device-name | sed -e 's/axge/ue/'` name olan inet
192.168.1.1/24";
action "ifconfig ue${device-name##axge} name olan inet 192.168.1.1/24";
(Untested, and sorry about wrapping.) Both examples use the shorter
CIDR notation for the netmask, and set the name and IP address at the
same time... which ought to work, but I did not test.
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