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Subject: Re: if_le unit number change?
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jia-Shiun Li wrote:

> I use vmware to run freebsd.
>
> recent update of 8-current changed the unit number of the virtual network 
> interface, an emulated if_le. usually the unit number should start from 0 
> ,namely le0. But after updating the source, le0 becomes le1. This makes 
> interface name mismatching that in rc.conf. I checked the commit log but 
> there seems nothing related in sys/dev/le. So should this be caused by 
> something else?
>
> The kernels dated 11/5 & 11/26.

Just ran into an identical problem with HEAD on VMWare here as well.  It 
appears to work fine as le1, which is reassuring, but the unit numbering 
change is worrying.  I may get a chance to do some binary searching today, but 
we'll see.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge