Re: How to tell if a network interface was renamed (and from what)

Kristof Provost <kp@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> I believe a similar solution has been proposed before, and it failed to cope with things like epair interfaces.
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> I’d look in the direction of just adding a field to struct ifnet with the original interface name (likely easily done in if_attach()), along with a new ioctl to retrieve that field.

Not knowing the intricacies of coding that, from an end user point of view,
that method would be perfectly fine too (and does seem a little cleaner,
even if a bit more disruptive codewise)

In other words, I'd be grateful for this functionality - As an end-user,
whilst my individual opinion doesn't really matter, I have no negative
opinion on the various ways of achieving it - whatever works out best for
you guys, and I'll be happy!

Cheers!