Stop interface reassignment on reboot

[martin085]

Hi all,
I am playing around with a second USB LAN interface.

I have

WAN
LAN (ue0)
VPN

If I delete the second (ue1) interface, remove it and reboot, the interface reassignment mode ALWAYS comes up, even though it was working fine pre-reboot as above.

If i plug back in the USB adapter even though there is no interface assigned it boots successfully and previous interfaces are correct.

So if I want a stable working system I cannot remove this not-in-use USB adapter.

It seems really dumb behavior. It may be something to do with how USB is recognized, any ideas?

[Gertjan]

@martin085 said in Stop interface reassignment on reboot:

It seems really dumb behavior

Correct. Using USB NIC's can be described as such ;)

Hardware interfaces HAVE to be present at boot so the system can apply known firewall rules and other settings on it. See it as security related. Like : I find a firewall, slide in my USB NIC into one of the port, and gain access to the system ...

Software based interfaces are somewhat different - they can be created on the fly after booting up (like OpenVPN interfaces).

I recall you can add to this file : /boot /loader.conf.local some instructions to have your USB NIC activated even when it is not there during boot. Use the forum-search function to find them.

[Antitesto]

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