ifconfig, vnets and interface names

Nikolay Denev ndenev at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 16:37:40 UTC 2010


On Oct 17, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> 
>> [ ... snip ... ]
> 
> It's actually a bug in sys/net/if.c:if_vmove* we know about and that's
> on the todo list.
> 

Thanks, good to know.

> I am not sure when the behaviour of ifconfig changed as previousy it
> would only show you one of the two interfaces with the single ether
> address.  ifconfig -l however had shown eth0 twice.  Neither is really
> what one would expect thus needs changing.
> 
> /bz
> 
> PS: freebsd-virtualization@ is the best list to report "VIMAGE" or
> "vnet" related problems.
> 

Ok, I'll keep that in mind.

> -- 
> Bjoern A. Zeeb                              Welcome a new stage of life.


Regards,
Nikolay


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