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From: Mykola Dzham <freebsd@levsha.org.ua>
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Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?
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 H.fazaeli wrote:
> 
>    for example, say you have 2 interface em0 and em1 which
>    you like to swap their minor numbers:
>    ifconfig em0 name tmp
>    ifconfig em1 name em0
>    ifconfig em0 name em1
>    or to assign cisco-like names to you interfaces:
>    ifconfig xl0 name fastEthernet0
>    ifconfig em0 name gigaEthernet0
>    ifconfig fastEthernet0 192.168.1.0/24
>    Yony Yossef wrote:

Interface renaming is complex when you use ng_ether: if ng_ether loaded
before renaming, then ng_ether node name remain unchanged after
ifconfig ... name

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