Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:37:37 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Alex Semenyaka <flist@jabberwock.rinet.ru> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Subject: Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address Message-ID: <20040523233737.219F720FC5@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 2004 17:35:30 %2B0400." <20040521133530.GA1403@qqmore.rinet.ru> References: <20040520162919.GA1971@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <20040520171833.GA22494@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040521133530.GA1403@qqmore.rinet.ru>
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This is all pretty interesting, though it seems like you'd only need to cobble together a shell script to do what you're after. The ifconfig command seems happy to tell you the MAC address of a specified interface.. It seems like an already present prototyping environment for this type of configuration is at hand. louie > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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