On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:34:12 -0400 Simon Perreault <simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca> wrote:
> On 2010-04-19 08:31, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > > sometimes it is better and necessary to have interfaces named under > > one standartized name like fether0... fetherN for example > > Why? And how can groups not accomplish that? > > Simon suppose you need to configure some interfaces of different makes: em0, bge0, rl0, ath0 to have name like: ether0, ether1, ether2, ether3... so you may plug in another card instead of ether2 for example. without interface renaming you will end up rewriting the whole seciton of your interface configuration script, while with it - you will only have to change one line: ifconfig bge0 name ether0 -- With best regards, Gregory Edigarov