[RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

[Louis A. Mamakos]

This is all pretty interesting, though it seems like you'd only
need to cobble together a shell script to do what you're after.
The ifconfig command seems happy to tell you the MAC address of
a specified interface..  It seems like an already present prototyping
environment for this type of configuration is at hand.

louie
 

> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like
> >> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int"
> > I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface
> > namespace that only work with ifconfig.  If you want ifconfig to match
> 
> I agree, but there is another option: make such things not ifconfig-specific.
> I mean that it could be done though renaming the interface into the some
> lladdr-dependent name with fixed format. For example,
> 
> ifconfig fxp0 llname
> 
> will rename fxp0 into hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c. As far as we know the format and
> MAC-address we could then do
> 
> ifconfig hw-00-90-27-35-ca-0c name pppoeint
> 
> This could be implemented easely right now and then automated though /etc/rc*
> 
> Actually the discussing feature is long time expected one, so it would be nice
> to have it implemented finally :)
> 
> Sincerely,
> Alex Semenyaka
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