Hello,
This diff adds possibility for the network interfaces to have an arbitrary
names.
this is done via ifconfig <oldname> name <newname>
Please test.
Thank you.
--- /usr/src/sys/net/if.c.orig Sat Apr 17 12:42:06 2010
+++ /usr/src/sys/net/if.c Sat Apr 17 13:27:12 2010
@@ -1416,6 +1416,17 @@
strlcpy(ifp->if_description, ifdescrbuf, IFDESCRSIZE);
}
break;
+
+ case SIOCSIFNAME:
+ if ((error = suser (p,0)) != 0)
+ return (error);
+ error = copyinstr(ifr->ifr_data, ifnamebuf,
+ IFNAMSIZ,&bytesdone);
+ if (error == 0) {
+ (void)memset (ifp->if_xname, 0, IFNAMSIZ);
+ strlcpy(ifp->if_xname, ifnamebuf,IFNAMSIZ);
+ }
+ break;
case SIOCGIFRTLABEL:
if (ifp->if_rtlabelid &&
--- /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c.orig Sat Apr 17 13:43:47 2010
+++ /usr/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c Sat Apr 17 14:34:15 2010
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
void setifbroadaddr(const char *, int);
void setifdesc(const char *, int);
void unsetifdesc(const char *, int);
+void setifname(const char *, int);
void setifipdst(const char *, int);
void setifmetric(const char *, int);
void setifmtu(const char *, int);
@@ -465,6 +466,7 @@
{ "descr", NEXTARG, 0, setifdesc },
{ "-description", 1, 0, unsetifdesc },
{ "-descr", 1, 0, unsetifdesc },
+ { "name", 1, 0, setifname},
{ NULL, /*src*/ 0, 0, setifaddr },
{ NULL, /*dst*/ 0, 0, setifdstaddr },
{ NULL, /*illegal*/0, 0, NULL },
@@ -1118,6 +1120,14 @@
/* ARGSUSED */
void
+setifname(const char *val, int ignored)
+{
+ ifr.ifr_data = (caddr_t)val;
+ if (ioctl(s, SIOCSIFNAME, &ifr) < 0)
+ warn("SIOCSIFNAME");
+}
+/* ARGSUSED */
+void
setifipdst(const char *addr, int ignored)
{
in_getaddr(addr, DSTADDR);
--- /usr/include/sys/sockio.h.orig Sat Apr 17 14:33:11 2010
+++ /usr/include/sys/sockio.h Sat Apr 17 14:32:41 2010
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@
#define SIOCSLIFPHYRTABLEID _IOW('i', 161, struct ifreq) /* set tunnel
VRF id */
#define SIOCGLIFPHYRTABLEID _IOWR('i', 162, struct ifreq) /* get tunnel
id */
+#define SIOCSIFNAME _IOW('i', 163, struct ifreq) /* set interface name */
+
#define SIOCSVH _IOWR('i', 245, struct ifreq) /* set carp
param */
#define SIOCGVH _IOWR('i', 246, struct ifreq) /* get carp
param */
--
With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
