Ok, this can be a really useful feature. Renaming network interfaces in freebsd to something more useful.
This requires FreeBSD 7. We are going to rename fxp0 to net0. Edit /etc/rc.conf and add:
ifconfig_fxp0_name=”net0″
ifconfig_net0=”inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0″
Yes – it’s that simple 🙂
Thanks for the note .I cannot find more freeBSD blogs on the net .
really u have good tips
thanks a lot . expecting more and more
kartook
No problem – I post whenever I think of something useful – or something that’s not so clear online.
This is very useful! I restored my current server to a new machine. The old machnines nic name was “bge0” and the new machines nic name was “em0. It was a pain as I had to change the nic name in rc.conf, pf.conf and a few other places I can’t remember now.
This is a great way of avoiding all that hassle…thank you!
there’s a few places where the new name doesn’t work (such as my PPPOE setup at home) but for the most part it will work fine – certainly with firewalls and rc.conf etc.
I prefer the em0 card to the bge0. The newer igb0 cards are even nicer (MSI-X support for better multi-core performance on high-load routers/servers)