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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:35:30 +0400
From: Alex Semenyaka <flist@jabberwock.rinet.ru>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
>> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like
>> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int"
> I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface
> namespace that only work with ifconfig.  If you want ifconfig to match

I agree, but there is another option: make such things not ifconfig-specific.
I mean that it could be done though renaming the interface into the some
lladdr-dependent name with fixed format. For example,

ifconfig fxp0 llname

will rename fxp0 into hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c. As far as we know the format and
MAC-address we could then do

ifconfig hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c name pppoeint

This could be implemented easely right now and then automated though /etc/rc*

Actually the discussing feature is long time expected one, so it would be nice
to have it implemented finally :)

Sincerely,
Alex Semenyaka