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 [[1]mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: [2]freebsd-...@freebsd.org; [3]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 _______________________________________________ [4]freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org mailing list [5]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [6]"freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [7]<h...@sepehrs.com> Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: [8]http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 _______________________________________________ [9]freebsd-...@freebsd.org mailing list [10]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to [11]"freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Best regards. Hooman Fazaeli [12]<h...@sepehrs.com> Sepehr S. T. Co. Ltd. Web: [13]http://www.sepehrs.com Tel: (9821)88975701-2 Fax: (9821)88983352 References 1. mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com 2. mailto:freebsd-...@freebsd.org 3. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 4. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 5. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 6. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 7. mailto:h...@sepehrs.com 8. http://www.sepehrs.com/ 9. mailto:freebsd-...@freebsd.org 10. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net 11. mailto:freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 12. mailto:h...@sepehrs.com 13. http://www.sepehrs.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
