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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2015 08:00:33 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507010753360.29377@wonkity.com>

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Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:42:43AM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > I vaguely remember being able to do this some years ago but I can't
> > remember the details.

> I believe they do, yes.  In fact I seem to remember a discussion on 
> this in the last year and someone shared either a devd or an rc.d 
> script to ensure static NIC names, however searching the web archvies 
> I couldn't find it

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2014-December/040533.html

Be sure to read all the way to the end, some things that appeared to 
work initially... did not.

This has come up enough that we should probably add it to the Advanced 
Networking chapter of the Handbook.



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