From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 18:14:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 182EE9A for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-warwickshire.gigahost.dk (mailout-warwickshire.gigahost.dk [77.74.192.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC25BAE for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout.gigahost.dk (mailout.gigahost.dk [89.186.169.112]) by mailout-warwickshire.gigahost.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D7BF620AC; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gigahost.dk (smtp.gigahost.dk [89.186.169.107]) by mailout.gigahost.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28CB25E102B; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.gigahost.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A52FE466063C; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Screener-Id: 2bfb0ba3b22e70c1e23704465ce0c16e022de43a Received: from easynote (80-71-133-54.u.parknet.dk [80.71.133.54]) by smtp.gigahost.dk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7815046602C2; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:14:19 +0100 From: To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NICs devices switches "pshycial" place on each boot - another solution Message-ID: <20141205191419.36462c2a@easynote> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:14:23 -0000 > If not possible then another really ugly hack would be to probe > ifconfig for device names, MAC addresses and IP numbers and then use > that to rename and change things. But I would not want to rely on > that! Seems like that wasn't such a bad idea after all :) It just had to be done right :) https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195692#c2 Much better approach. Cheers, Kim