Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-06-05 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jiri B [2013-03-14 16:32]: > Situation: onboard network card is broken and was used in OS. > You just plug additional network card, and disable the old > one via `config' (is this right?). The "policy" in your > setup is the order of network cards make some logic: > * 1st backup/installation > *

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-03-15, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jiri B wrote: > >> I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good >> for? > > > On Windows it has it's advantages because by default you get stupid and > unhelpful names like "Local Area Connection X". > It's prett

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Lars Hansson
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jiri B wrote: > I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good > for? On Windows it has it's advantages because by default you get stupid and unhelpful names like "Local Area Connection X". It's pretty nice to be able to rename it to something usefu

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Alexander Hall
On 03/14/13 20:15, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > Jiri B devio.us> writes: > >> I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good >> for? Like /etc/mactab in Linux... I've thought I have usage >> for this but then I discovered I did bad testing and reorder >> of nics was my issue in RHEVM/k

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Alexey E. Suslikov
Jiri B devio.us> writes: > I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good > for? Like /etc/mactab in Linux... I've thought I have usage > for this but then I discovered I did bad testing and reorder > of nics was my issue in RHEVM/kvm world. hey, this is OpenBSD, which is neither for

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:31:29AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > Situation: onboard network card is broken and was used in OS. > You just plug additional network card, and disable the old > one via `config' (is this right?). The "policy" in your > setup is the order of network cards make some logic: > * 1

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/14/2013 11:31 AM, Jiri B wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: just for curiosity, is it planned for future? I can't just now think about real usability... Me neither. For most use cases I c

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > > > just for curiosity, is it planned for future? > > > > I can't just now think about real usability... > > Me neither. For most use cases I can think of, interface

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:10:40PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > Me neither. For most use cases I can think of, interface groups (a feature > > we > > do have, see ifconfig(8) and possibly other references elsewhere) will give > > you what others have i

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Me neither. For most use cases I can think of, interface groups (a feature we > do have, see ifconfig(8) and possibly other references elsewhere) will give > you what others have implemented interface renaming for. There are also interface descriptions. -- Chris

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: > just for curiosity, is it planned for future? > > I can't just now think about real usability... Me neither. For most use cases I can think of, interface groups (a feature we do have, see ifconfig(8) and possibly other references elsewh