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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:56:33 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com>
Cc:        "Paul S." <contact@winterei.se>,  "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD
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Hi,

If we don't support this as part of the interface renaming stuff, it
would certainly be good to.


a-


On 29 June 2015 at 21:36, Wei Hu <weh@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> -----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,
> Wei
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