On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:29 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 06:25 PM, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > ps: Also, although it's not very relevant, getting the MAC address of
> > the first ethernet interface isn't easy in FreeBSD. I have no idea
> > if the same is true of Linux. (I'd also be worried that "first"
> > might not be fixed?)
>
> It doesn't need to be the same interface all the time, I just meant the
> first as in not a specific one.
Yes it does have to be the same interface all the time. Otherwise the
server cannot tell that this is the same client booting up again.
...and yes, this is a problem not only on FreeBSD, but for Linux too.
The fact that devices can come up (and go down too in the case of
hotplugging) in any order is the main reason why the ethernet device
naming scheme was changed recently.
Trond
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