dev.* analogue for interfaces

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Hmm.  When I look at net/if.c, I don't see renaming support, so
> > perhaps this was just a proposal I was thinking of and not actual
> > code.
> no, it's there, check ifconfig(8)

specifically,

des at ds4 ~% sudo kldload if_bridge
des at ds4 ~% sudo ifconfig bridge0 plumb
des at ds4 ~% ifconfig -l
msk0 lo0 pflog0 bridge0
des at ds4 ~% sudo ifconfig bridge0 name foo
des at ds4 ~% ifconfig -l
msk0 lo0 pflog0 foo

DES
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