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 🙂