On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:42:43AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 7/1/15 6:56 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If we don't support this as part of the interface renaming stuff, it > > would certainly be good to. > > > > > > a- > > > > > > On 29 June 2015 at 21:36, Wei Hu <w...@microsoft.com> wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: owner-freebsd-...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > >>> n...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul S. > >>> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 7:53 PM > >>> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > >>> Subject: Re: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD > >>> > >>> On my production systems, I've never seen it deviate without hardware > >>> changes. > >>> > >>> Are you seeing otherwise? > >>> > >> In Hyper-V, if say three NICs were assigned to the VM, I got following > >> mapping > >> Initially: > >> > >> Hn0 -> MAC 0 > >> Hn1 -> MAC 1 > >> Hn2 -> MAC2 > >> > >> Then if I remove the NIC with MAC 1 and reboot, I want the other two > >> interfaces to keep the same > >> Names instead of reassigning hn1 to MAC2. This is a requirement from > >> virtual appliance > >> Vendor to retain such mappings. I am wondering if there is any way to do > >> this without > >> Asking customer or manually editing any config files. > do interface arrivals show up in devd? if so they could be renamed on > arrival > I vaguely remember being able to do this some years ago but I can't > remember the details.
I believe they do, yes. In fact I seem to remember a discussion on this in the last year and someone shared either a devd or an rc.d script to ensure static NIC names, however searching the web archvies I couldn't find it Regards, Gary _______________________________________________ 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"
