On Fri 14 Oct 2016 11:25:12 NZDT +1300, Walter Parker wrote: > Problem is that all of the current OS do this sort of renumbering (I'd have > to check, but I think it could be a hardware/driver issue). IIRC Linux > systems have had this sort of problem in even greater measure than the > BSDs. The plug and play nature of USB has caused issues for most systems > (drive letter changes on Windows, device name changes on Linux, even BSD > has started doing this). The brain dead here is problem that extends to the > PC industry as a whole.
Totally with you there on PC industry intelligence! > PFSense is subject bad decisions that were made > decades ago by other companies without enough vision. The automapping ideas > in hardware were not properly thought out and software didn't think it > though either. Sure, pfsense can do little about dumb OS things, and swapping interfaces randomly is a major security problem. But pfsense could still do much better. Does a disappearing USB interface renumber Ethernet interfaces? Does a disappearing reX driver interface renumber the ueX interfaces? I didn't think so, so it should be possible to remove those that will/could be renumbered and run with the rest, without getting surprises other than missing interfaces or failing to boot. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
