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Old 17th July 2014
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Default Changing Which Interface Is Assigned To Network Interface (physical) Port

I know this is kind of a crazy request but I have a computer that has 4 network interfaces and OpenBSD 5.5 has installed them in different order then i would have expected.

Is there any way to change this?


[ xl1 ] [ xl2 ]
[ xl3 ] [ xl0 ]

I would like it to have more uniform is possible. Maybe something like.

[ xl0 ] [ xl1 ]
[ xl2 ] [ xl3 ]
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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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Here's an example from one of my firewalls:
Code:
$ ifconfig vr
vr0: flags=28802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500
    lladdr c0:42:10:27:57:d9
    description: << External >>
    priority: 0
    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
    status: active
vr1: flags=28b43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500
    lladdr 00:0d:b9:2f:99:ad
    description: << Internal >>
    priority: 0
    groups: egress
    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
    status: active
    inet 10.0.1.253 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255
vr2: flags=28843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NOINET6> mtu 1500
    lladdr 00:0d:b9:2f:99:ae
    description: << PFSync >>
    priority: 0
    media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
    status: active
    inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
$
$ cat /etc/hostname.vr0
description "<< External >>"
-inet6
$
The external NIC on this firewall does not have an address assigned during normal operations. Its state is managed by scripts executed by ifstated(8) that monitors a carp(4) interface on the internal subnet.

Last edited by jggimi; 18th July 2014 at 10:29 AM. Reason: clarity. Strangely enough, no typos.
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