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_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > 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_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html -- Brooks
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:36 UTC