Solution for interfaces changing around

[zbig]

Hello everyone

I know for a fact that this very topic was being discussed in the past but, for the life of me, I wasn't able to find it again.

So, I'm using OPNsense under hypervisor (moving from vSphere to Proxmox right now) and the quirk that gives me headaches is the fact that when I add or remove virtual network interface(s) on hypervisor level, FreeBSD (and thus OPNsense's) IF names (like opt<number>) get reassigned and the whole configuration basically gets FUBAR'd until sorted out manually, while the GF screams "What's happened to the Internet?" from another room while doing so.

I seem to recall there was some optional tool that allowed one to bind IF name to its MAC address, solving this mess once and for all. Could anyone point me to this, pretty please?

Regards,
Zbig

[meyergru]

Use the search, maybe? https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=27023.0

[zbig]

Passive-aggressive much? I already said that I've tried to search for it and failed. Apparently you're better at it but there's no reason to be an asshole about it. Anyway, thanks... I guess...?

[meyergru]

Sorry to say this, but you cannot have tried it that hard when I just entered the relevant words from your post into google and the link was literally the first to turn up. Also, you have yourself posted in that very thread. You could have looked at your own posting history.

I am just tired of people asking the same things over and over again, without even trying themselves first. Recently, I considered to create an FAQ with the 50 most-asked questions here with links to the solutions (starting with: "I have not bothered to look into the documentation, but...").

Might be a worthwhile experiment to do.