original interface name? (5.*)

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:18:31PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a stable way to determine original interface name (before
> any renaming) in 5.3? I.e. as driver + sequence number?

What do you want it for and where do you want it?  I think there were
plans to export if_dname and if_dunit via sysctls, but I don't think
that ever happened and they aren't really ment to be user visiable.
There's also no requirement that ("%s%d", if_dname, if_dunit) ever have
been the name of the interface (for instance in enhanced cloners such as
stf(4) and vlan(4)).

-- Brooks

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