Hello,
Thanks for your reply.

crist.clark> > Question, though, why do you want to rename your interface?  I
crist.clark> > am a little confused about at what level you actually want to
crist.clark> > name it.  Device level naming is done in the OS, and I am not
crist.clark> > even sure if you can successfully rename it there.
crist.clark>
crist.clark> Exactly. I don't know if you can pull this off with a couple of
crist.clark> symbolic links. The error you get,
crist.clark>
crist.clark>   FW-1:i/f abc0(abc0) is not fund in table (SIOCSLIFNETMASK 8078697e)
crist.clark>
crist.clark> Is telling me that FW-1 is pulling the interface list from the kernel.
crist.clark> The same list you get from an,
crist.clark>
crist.clark>   # ifconfig -a
crist.clark>
crist.clark> If you can't get your abc0 to show up in the ifconfig(1M) output,
crist.clark> I really doubt this is going to work.

I get the name of abc0 in the list of "ifconfig -a", but it does not show
UP flag, thus the interface is not active. If Fw-1 is not installed previously
everything seems OK.

Regards,

--Wen

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