Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 07:53:16 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet interface names Message-ID: <4990.902145196@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:39:15 %2B0200." <19980803133915.52291@deepo.prosa.dk>
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Philippe Regnauld wrote in message ID <19980803133915.52291@deepo.prosa.dk>: > The advantage would be that you could pull out a dead card, plug > a new (not necessarily of the same model), and there woudln't > be any need to edit rc.conf, rc.firewall, etc... Thats assuming that the card is of the same bus type. If you replace an ISA card with a PCI card, you will probably end up with a different probe order, and hence the exact problems you highlight above. If you could do device numbering persistance like solaris does, so that devices don't change numbers over a reboot (just a reboot -r), then I think the `eth' scheme may work. I think the biggest thing stopping us doing it is POLA.... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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