From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 20:49:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 354F037B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@vivdev.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dhcp043-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com [24.151.10.43]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13814 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 20:49:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: lists@vivdev.com (Unverified) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:49:30 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: lists Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:38:10 -0400 >To: michael@tenzo.com >From: lists >Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Michael wrote: > >>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. >> a newestbie asks: I saw earlier in this thread someone giving an example aliasing the names - why not just put in aliases in the configuration, then you just have to change the alias mapping when you change hardware? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message