Using any network interface whatsoever

[Joseph Scott]

On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> I think at this point it's been pretty well established that:
>
> - Device naming and unit numbering is not stable enough to avoid  
> breakage across hardware changes.
> - There is a need for generic and/or descriptive interface naming  
> independent of driver- and probe-order-based naming.
> - There are static bits of information available about each device  
> in the system that can be used to locate a specific device that  
> would be sufficient to allow assignment of a network configuration  
> to a physical device, not it's attached name.
>
> If I were to write an rc.d script to use descriptive network  
> interface names and wire configs to static hardware identification,  
> would there be support for such a feature?

Being mostly a lurker on this list I don't know that my vote would  
count for much, but yes I'd support such a feature.  Thank you also  
for outlining the issues for this thread in a simple manner.

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Joseph Scott
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