howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

[H.fazaeli]

you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel.
However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name <your-name-here>'
to achieve the same affect


Yony Yossef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g.
> make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0
> and pci0:19 with unit number 1.
>
> Is it done by /boot/device.hints?
> if so, how?
>
> My cards are:
>
> mtnic0 at pci0:19:0:0:     class=0x020000 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3
> rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00
> mtnic1 at pci0:16:0:0:     class=0x020000 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3
> rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00
>
> So I've tried:
>
> hint.mtnic.0.at="pci0:16"
> hint.mtnic.1.at="pci0:19"
>
> but it doesn't work. They keep switching arbitrarily.
> I'm using FreeBSD 7.0.
>
> Thanks
> Yony
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