Change Interface Name
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Hi guys,
I know, I know, don't virtualize pfsense... I know.
But, as a backup solution to my bare metal PC running pfsense, I spun up a VM under proxmox so I could take down the main appliance for some hardware changes. I got it all installed, loaded my XML, and immediately was prompted to sort out all my interfaces... Bare Metal box has em_ enumerations, whereas the virtual instance has bce_.
I passed a quad NIC through via proxmox to the VM, but the NIC's are not the same type, the one in the proxmox machine is broadcom whereas I believe the one in my main box is Intel, or at least a Dell or HP branded Intel card (I think?).
Is this what results in this naming difference? Is there a way to force them to have the same names as it would make my "archaic" manual failover option much more simplistic.
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@ligistx said in Change Interface Name:
Is this what results in this naming difference?
Yes, there is nothing you can do about that. What you can do is editing the xml file, change all the names by hand and then reapply it.
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You could choose not to pass though the hardware and then set the virtual NICs as e1000. Then they will use the em(4) driver and match.
Steve
