Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/2/2011 8:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote:
biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0!
Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM.
But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe.
It's about
time.
EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not to
have to worry
is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0, bge0, ed0, etc in networking scripts. Why
would you
want to go back to that?
The numbers chosen in the eth? scheme are more or less randomized even
on identical hardware, so it is pretty much impossible to prepare a disk <snip> Anybody know *why*? Is it based on the order of response of the NIC firmware? Certainly, were I writing the code, I'd have based it on the bus address.
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