Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:36:18 +0000 From: Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com> To: Paul S. <contact@winterei.se>, "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD Message-ID: <BY1PR03MB143410D9C26A8EAFD44898E4BBA90@BY1PR03MB1434.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <559131AC.6010304@winterei.se> References: <BY1PR03MB14348857B72B04AE33FE4926BBAA0@BY1PR03MB1434.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> <559131AC.6010304@winterei.se>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > net@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul S. > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 7:53 PM > To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD > > On my production systems, I've never seen it deviate without hardware > changes. > > Are you seeing otherwise? > In Hyper-V, if say three NICs were assigned to the VM, I got following mapping Initially: Hn0 -> MAC 0 Hn1 -> MAC 1 Hn2 -> MAC2 Then if I remove the NIC with MAC 1 and reboot, I want the other two interfaces to keep the same Names instead of reassigning hn1 to MAC2. This is a requirement from virtual appliance Vendor to retain such mappings. I am wondering if there is any way to do this without Asking customer or manually editing any config files. Thanks, Weihelp
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