On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:34:12 -0400
Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote:

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> On 2010-04-19 08:31, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
> > sometimes it is better and necessary to have interfaces named under
> > one standartized name like fether0... fetherN for example
> 
> Why? And how can groups not accomplish that?
> 
> Simon
suppose you need to configure some interfaces of different makes:
em0, bge0, rl0, ath0
to have name like:
ether0, ether1, ether2, ether3...
so you may plug in another card instead of ether2 for example.
without interface renaming you will end up rewriting the whole seciton
of your interface configuration script, while with it - you will only
have to change one line:
ifconfig bge0 name ether0 
 

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With best regards,
	Gregory Edigarov