> On 11/12/2014 11:19 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:11:23AM +0200, Lars Engblom wrote: > >> Please consider to add support for a hostname.default. If no hostname.X is > >> matching the interface, this file would be used as last resource before > >> giving up configuring the interface. > > Before configuring _which_ interface? > > I guess you mean the case of having several network interfaces. Let all > of the unconfigured interfaces get the IP settings from hostname.default > and write this in the documentation. It is easier to plug in just one > cable than having to guess all the names of the interfaces (em0, bge0, > re0, rl0 etc). > > After the first boot one can easily find out the names with ifconfig and > then for example 'mv /etc/hostname.default /etc/hostname.em0'
Two paragraphs written without any critical thought. We won't be doing that...
