On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 05:33:09PM +0100, Daniele B. wrote: > > > The /etc/hostname.if files can take a MAC address as the if part now, so > > that > > is not necessarily an issue. > > Interesting though, how to specify the mac? > > However this doesnt change much in portability coordinates, if you litterally > switch you bsd > from an hardware system to an other one luckly you will change mac too.
If you add or remove an NIC on a system that is using /etc/hostname.mac then the other NICs will still read the correct configuration. That was not always true with hostname.if. If you change the hardware completely, then of course you are likely to have to make changes to the networking configuration. That's almost unavoidable.
