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To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Daniel Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: bge numbering
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:46:10 +0100, Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>  
wrote:

> Hi,
> this server, a Dell R720 has 4 bge on board,
>      Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x5720000
>      bge0: APE FW version: NCSI v1.1.7.0
>      bge0: CHIP ID 0x05720000; ASIC REV 0x5720; CHIP REV 0x57200; PCI-E
>      miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0
>      ...
>
> I have connected the ethernet to port labeled 0, but it appears
> as bge2, how can this be corrected?
>
> thanks,
> 	danny
>

See /etc/defaults/rc.conf:
#ifconfig_fxp0_name="net0"      # Change interface name from fxp0 to net0.

or 'ifconfig name'.

Ronald.