Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD

[Julian Elischer]

On 7/1/15 6:56 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If we don't support this as part of the interface renaming stuff, it
> would certainly be good to.
>
>
> a-
>
>
> On 29 June 2015 at 21:36, Wei Hu <weh at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-freebsd-net at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>>> net at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul S.
>>> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 7:53 PM
>>> To: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: Same NIC name to MAC mapping on FreeBSD
>>>
>>> On my production systems, I've never seen it deviate without hardware
>>> changes.
>>>
>>> Are you seeing otherwise?
>>>
>> In Hyper-V, if say three NICs were assigned to the VM, I got following mapping
>> Initially:
>>
>> Hn0 -> MAC 0
>> Hn1 -> MAC 1
>> Hn2 -> MAC2
>>
>> Then if I remove the NIC with MAC 1 and reboot, I want the other two interfaces to keep the same
>> Names instead of reassigning hn1 to MAC2. This is a requirement from virtual appliance
>> Vendor to retain such mappings.  I am wondering if there is any way to do this without
>> Asking customer or manually editing any config files.
do interface arrivals show up in devd? if so they could be renamed on 
arrival
I vaguely remember being able to do this some years ago but I can't 
remember the details.

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wei
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