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Subject: [Bug 195692] New: Feature request: Make devd read MAC addresses
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:49:59 +0000
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195692

            Bug ID: 195692
           Summary: Feature request: Make devd read MAC addresses
           Product: Base System
           Version: 11.0-CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: standards
          Assignee: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: greencoppermine@yandex.com

I have been struggling with this problem:

https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=615680+0+current/freebsd-net

Which eventually lead me to use devd to solve the problem, however the ONLY
reason I could solve it was because the vendor actually provided a unique
serial number for each device.

Now, coming from Linux with 70-persistent-net.rules, in which devices can be
matched and fixed for udev using their MAC addresses, I cannot imagine how easy
it would have been to solve this problem had devd been able to read MAC
addresses.

IMHO, and in all respect, it makes absolutely no sense that devd can get the
device vendor, product, serialnumber, etc, but not the MAC address.

This would be extremely useful.

So hence this feature request.

Kindest regards.

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