Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:06:34 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Willy Offermans <Willy@offermans.rompen.nl>, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: control of order of inet devices Message-ID: <20130416190634.GH98205@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <CAOgwaMtVZoHkSVAxUpp-kYAKxQ9E4ntYPA0xkahdyzK8gkFDJQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20130416135621.GE3286@vpn.offrom.nl> <20130416154423.GD98205@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <CAJ-Vmokde3ZYyB_uYZeThHcPWzP9=g=DzN-ESJCvmM%2BKntDpow@mail.gmail.com> <20130416183618.GG98205@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <CAOgwaMtVZoHkSVAxUpp-kYAKxQ9E4ntYPA0xkahdyzK8gkFDJQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:03:14PM -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:08:00AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Since people keep asking about this; maybe it's time we added a hint > > > to the bus code that allows for the unit to be set based on the pci > > > bus / slot / etc. > > > > I don't see how that would address Willy's request. Neither the unit > > number or the if_index of an interface effects its order in > > getifaddrs() output. > > > > With modern bus hierarchies, you probably don't want to use the unit > > anyway as it loses too much information. Some along the lines of > > Fedora's Consistent Network Device Naming would likely be more useful. > > That would be fairly easy to implement. > > > > -- Brooks > > >=20 >=20 > Fedora is using eth0 , ... , eth9 , but FreeBSD is using em* , re* , .. > names which is much better than Fedora ( or similar distributions ) > approach . As of Fedora 16 the default was changed: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/System_Administrators_Gu= ide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html -- Brooks --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFRbaE5XY6L6fI4GtQRAibVAJdYxjwSha0r7Iwb/y3DVD40VCN1AKCd94Gs NRQ0i9nK9GPVz6PAQoAwEw== =e7T4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O--
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