On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 10:49:05 -0400 Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > Another hacky trick is to create both ifconfig.wm0 and ifconfig.bge0 > and just leave both there, if you are pretty sure you'll have one or > the other. That might create annoying or problematic errors though.
I was thinking about doing that for fstab as well. > > Maybe Linux has the right idea. The ethernet cards are always eth# > > no matter what the actual hardware. > > But how is the ordering determined? The basic issue is that you have > cables plugged into ports and then interfaces appearing, and ordering > is based on some probe order, somehow. Well, I already depend on the ordering anyway. All my servers have two ethernet ports and they are labeled 1 and 2 (or 0 and 1) . I plug the first one into the external network and the second into the internal one. I have never had to swap those ports. The numbering on the case always matched the system. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> http://www.NetBSD.org/ IM:[email protected]
