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Old 17th July 2014
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No, change is not possible in the OS. There are addressing options:
  • Assign and manage them by interface groups. Each can be placed in its own, and the names are arbitrary. See ifconfig(8).
  • Assign arbitrary description string to each interface, such as "bottom left NIC" "blue cable", "ISP 3", "R&D department", "Kid's gaming LAN", "EverydayDiesel's DMZ". See ifconfig(8).
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NICs are assigned in the order they are presented to the OS during hardware discovery.
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