Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:36:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_le unit number change? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0811270935570.52736@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <1d6d20bc0811260656t101ddb0eu35296ac973c6ba10@mail.gmail.com> References: <1d6d20bc0811260656t101ddb0eu35296ac973c6ba10@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > I use vmware to run freebsd. > > recent update of 8-current changed the unit number of the virtual network > interface, an emulated if_le. usually the unit number should start from 0 > ,namely le0. But after updating the source, le0 becomes le1. This makes > interface name mismatching that in rc.conf. I checked the commit log but > there seems nothing related in sys/dev/le. So should this be caused by > something else? > > The kernels dated 11/5 & 11/26. Just ran into an identical problem with HEAD on VMWare here as well. It appears to work fine as le1, which is reassuring, but the unit numbering change is worrying. I may get a chance to do some binary searching today, but we'll see. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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