Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:01:28 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <15060.57928.117921.984636@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <86870099@toto.iv>
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Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com> types: > Yes, this is what I meant. The reason I raised the questions is that I'm > configuring a simple firewall for my home network and so far I've "hardcoded" > NIC names in three or four different places. Presumably if I ever replaced a > NIC with a different type/driver, I'd have to rediscover all the places I'd > used the old name. Then you should log them down as you do it, so you don't have to rediscover them. This is a good practice for configuration stuff in general. One of these days, I'll do the writeup on using source code control systems for this kind of thing, which allowed me to locate all the places I'd hard-coded the ethernet device name on this system with one command. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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