On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 8:15 AM Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Lee Nelson <lnel...@nelnet.org> wrote:
>
> > If I have multiple USB Ethernet adapters of identical make and model,
> > how does OpenBSD distinguish them over time.
>
> Is this happening to APU with same hardware interfaces, too?
>

No, 'wired in' interfaces are initialized in a predictable sequence.  NICs
installed in, e.g., PCI or PCIe slots also get consistent numbering.  If you
have multiple NICs installed the numbering might change if you remove one
(i.e. fxp1 might become fxp0 if you remove the old fxp0).

-ken

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