Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:49:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Howto rename an interface Message-ID: <20030505114756.K53365@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <200305042117.39042.wes@softweyr.com> References: <_MzYgD.A.O9P._h8s-@coal.sentex.ca> <200305041937.27631.vjardin@wanadoo.fr> <200305042117.39042.wes@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003, Wes Peters wrote: WP>On Sunday 04 May 2003 11:18, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: WP>All of the system startups need to refer to these ports by function, not WP>by some silly number assigned as a side effect of the PCI bus probing WP>order. WP> WP>This almost begs for some simple alias that can be programmatically (or WP>via a command line utility) added to the interface so the association WP>with the device type isn't lost. That bears some thought. An interface WP>label, as it were... Perhaps an if_alias field in struct ifnet, setable via ifconfig? This would just nicely map to the alias name field in the SNMP interface MIB. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org
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