On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Rod Taylor wrote: > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > > different > > 'name'. > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > The best solution would be hardwiring the names, but in that case it > doesn't matter what are the default names.
Yes. Hardwiring is the only appropriate solution. It should be done as a part of the loader kernel configuration. Perhaps it should work somewhat like the SCSI disk partitions. Unspecified interfaces get the next available slot. However, and this is the important point, it is very useful to be able to assign an identifier to the logical interface and have that identifier appear in EVERY reference to the interface. I would like to hardwire 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee which uses the vr driver to eth23 and have ifconfig accept and report the device as 'eth23'. The actual driver is parenthetical. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
