On 9/21/07, Marius ROMAN <marius.roman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 9/21/07, Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> wrote:
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> > The best thing however would be to have the ability to set the name of
> > an intreface based on it's mac address, perhaps somebody is working on
> > it/having it on the todo list?
> >
> Something like iftab on debian.

This won't happen. The developers value simplicity over error-prone complexity.

How many times do you need to move a card from machine to machine that
you wouldn't be configuring things by hand anyway?
If you need to keep the same config for each card handy, read
hostname.if(8) and use those; e.g. /etc/hostname.de0 contains the
config for your card on one machine; you move the card to another and
it becomes de3, so copy the file and rename it to /etc/hostname.de3 on
the new machine.

Always ask: what's the real issue?

-Nick