> Currently, the names of network interfaces are tied
>  to the 
> underlying hardware, for example, bge0.

This is so because of historical reasons, i.e. SunOS/BSD naming conventions, 
which rely on networking HW having its own name.

One of the rare things I like is how Linux solved this: regardless of the 
networking HW, all interfaces are named "eth[0-N]", for example eth0, eth1, ... 
, ethN.

Perhaps this would be a solution to consider?  There can still be bge0, and 
iprb0, iprb1 or ce0 in the system, but they would also have aliases net0, net1, 
net2, net3 and so on.
 
 
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