From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 3 04:53:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA12772 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 04:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12763 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 04:53:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA04994; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 07:53:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Philippe Regnauld cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Ethernet interface names In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:39:15 +0200." <19980803133915.52291@deepo.prosa.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 07:53:16 -0400 Message-ID: <4990.902145196@gjp.erols.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAA12767 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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