On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the bad configuration the NIC with 00:30:48:d2:9a:06 is > called "em2", in the good one it is called "em4". Maybe you > can imagine how PF screws up, if this NIC would have been > physically connected to the Internet. > > Surely it is unusual that a NIC "disappears" somehow. Maybe > there is something wrong with my hardware, but this can always > happen. I would like to have a secure setup even if there is a > hardware failure.
what keeps you from writing a script that would be called from the end of /etc/netstart; the script would check whether the initialized network interfaces match those described by a predefined table? in case of failure it would react somehow... you could also put in a NIC of some other type that would always be named the same (e.g. xl0) that would be an interface used for reporting the failure with those emX?
