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Below patch will do the dirty deed. https://github.com//dirkx/Freebsd-src contains a tiny diff that back ports the required intra to 10.2 (as it is not yet all MFCed).

*** interfaces.inc.orig    Thu Jan 28 14:48:13 2016
--- interfaces.inc    Thu Jan 28 15:16:26 2016
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*** 1040,1046 ****
      }

      foreach ($iflist as $if => $ifname) {
!         $realif = $config['interfaces'][$if]['if'];
          if (strstr($realif, "bridge")) {
              $bridge_list[$if] = $ifname;
          } else if (strstr($realif, "gre")) {
--- 1040,1057 ----
      }

      foreach ($iflist as $if => $ifname) {
!         $ifcfg = $config['interfaces'][$if];
!         $realif = $ifcfg['if'];
! 
!         # We need to do this both here -and- in interface_configure; as
!         # some interfaces do not need interface_configure; yet changes
!         # bypass interfaces_configure.
!         #
!         if (isset($ifcfg['descr'])) {
!             log_error("Wand change");
!             mwexec("/sbin/ifconfig " . escapeshellarg($ifcfg['if']) . " description ".escapeshellarg($ifcfg['descr']));
!         };
! 
          if (strstr($realif, "bridge")) {
              $bridge_list[$if] = $ifname;
          } else if (strstr($realif, "gre")) {
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*** 1065,1070 ****
--- 1076,1082 ----
                  echo gettext("done.") . "\n";
              }
          }
+ 
      }

      /*
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*** 3158,3163 ****
--- 3170,3179 ----

      $wancfg = $config['interfaces'][$interface];

+     if (isset($wancfg['descr'])) {
+         mwexec("/sbin/ifconfig " . escapeshellarg($wancfg['if']) . " description ".escapeshellarg($wancfg['descr']));
+     };
+ 
      if (!isset($wancfg['enable'])) {
          return;
      }

Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

Below patch will do the dirty deed. https://github.com//dirkx/Freebsd-src contains a tiny diff that back ports the required intra to 10.2 (as it is not yet all MFCed).

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Note - the infra is ONLY needed to support bsnmpd and similar kernel functions; above patch will work on any recent freebsd release; and update the description field correctly.

Was about to setup a feature request for this.

Can this get into a release as it would be helpful.

Thanks, to Dirk-Willem.

Gareth