pfSense

Merged:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/085ff94b11a8f0f9eea7aaf0d1d2ff8347710d9c

Applied in changeset commit:085ff94b11a8f0f9eea7aaf0d1d2ff8347710d9c.

Updating subject for release notes.

Jordan Greene wrote in #note-8:

Tested on 22.05.a.20220429.1807 by adding USB NIC, enabling it and setting a static IP. Rebooted system and removed USB interface before system posted. pfSense loaded and had assigned a different unused physical interface to the interface where the USB was previously associated. Upon plugging the USB back in the new interface now has changed back to using the USB for it's physical assignment.

Did it really change the assignment (Check Status > Interfaces, for example) or was it just missing from the drop-down on Interfaces > Assignments? That would be two very different problems. If it's missing from the drop-down list then the GUI appearance of it being a different interface is only cosmetic. If the actual assignment changed that would be a deeper issue that would break a lot more things.

Seems to be working about as well as we can hope for here. Maybe in the future we can add dummy entries into the interface list for assignment for these kind of potentially-temporary interfaces.