On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:10:07PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>  > > I was thinking about that, too.  I could add a 'name' node, too:
>  > > 
>  > > net.interfaces.3.name=xvif0.0
>  > > net.interfaces.3.sndq.maxlen=...
>  > 
>  > sure, that would work.
> 
> Ugh. Is there some reason we can't just rename the offending interfaces?

that would break existing scripts. If not pulled up to a release branch
this could be acceptable though. would a name like xvifx-y work ?
We also have to make sure the new name is accepted by all tools
(e.g. ipf).

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Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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