Howto rename an interface

[Mike Tancsa]

It sounds a bit messy to maintain.  Perhaps it would be easier to just
write wrapper programs around those that you use if really need be.  e.g. a
local copy of netstat,ifconfig and route and have those executed first in
your path.  

	---Mike

On Sat, 3 May 2003 15:47:34 +0200, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote:

>I would like to rename the network interfaces. More particularly, I would like 
>to control the numbers in the name and to remove the constraints.
>
>For example, what are the issues about renaming my 'vr0' interface to eth1-3 
>or DSL-WAN that does not have a ifunit within its name ?
>
>I think about the following issues, what am I forgetting ?
>  - update all the sockaddr_dl
>  - many drivers, in fact all of them, log with %s%d, ifname, ifunit
>  - (add a message on the routing socket)
>
>Regards,
>  Vincent
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