Может ли кто-нибудь объяснить вывод ifconfig в Mac OS X?

Вы можете увидеть имена, которые используются в Системных настройках для некоторых устройств под управлением networksetup -listallhardwareports:

Hardware Port: HUAWEIMobile-
Device: HUAWEIMobile-Modem
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: Bluetooth DUN
Device: Bluetooth-Modem
Ethernet Address: N/A

Hardware Port: Ethernet
Device: en0
Ethernet Address: a8:20:66:31:95:57

Hardware Port: MBBEthernet
Device: en5
Ethernet Address: 00:1e:10:1f:00:01

Hardware Port: Wi-Fi
Device: en1
Ethernet Address: 8c:2d:aa:33:03:e9

Hardware Port: Bluetooth PAN
Device: en4
Ethernet Address: 8c:2d:aa:33:03:ea

Hardware Port: Thunderbolt 1
Device: en2
Ethernet Address: 32:00:1b:25:92:c0

Hardware Port: Thunderbolt 2
Device: en3
Ethernet Address: 32:00:1b:25:92:c1

Hardware Port: Thunderbolt Bridge
Device: bridge0
Ethernet Address: N/A

VLAN Configurations
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networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder производит аналогичный вывод, но отображает "список сетевых служб в том порядке, в котором с ними связываются для подключения", или показывает службы в том же порядке, что и системные настройки.

networksetup не включает такие устройства, как vmnet1 и vmnet8 устройства, используемые VMWare.

вы можете увидеть более подробную информацию о en устройств под управлением defaults read /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist:

{
    Interfaces =     (
                {
            Active = 1;
            "BSD Name" = en0;
            IOBuiltin = 1;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 0;
            IOMACAddress = <a8206631 9557>;
            IOPathMatch = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP03@1C,2/IOPP/GIGE@0/BCM5701Enet/en0";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                UserDefinedName = Ethernet;
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = Ethernet;
        },
                {
            Active = 1;
            "BSD Name" = en1;
            IOBuiltin = 1;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 1;
            IOMACAddress = <8c2daa33 03e9>;
            IOPathMatch = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP04@1C,3/IOPP/ARPT@0/AirPort_Brcm4360/en1";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                UserDefinedName = "Wi-Fi";
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = IEEE80211;
        },
                {
            Active = 1;
            "BSD Name" = en2;
            IOBuiltin = 1;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 2;
            IOMACAddress = <32001b25 92c0>;
            IOPathMatch = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP05@1C,4/IOPP/UPSB@0/IOPP/DSB0@0/IOPP/NHI0@0/AppleThunderboltHAL/AppleThunderboltNHIType2/IOThunderboltController/IOThunderboltLocalNode/AppleThunderboltIPService/AppleThunderboltIPPort/en2";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                UserDefinedName = "Thunderbolt 1";
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = Ethernet;
        },
                {
            Active = 1;
            "BSD Name" = en3;
            IOBuiltin = 1;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 3;
            IOMACAddress = <32001b25 92c1>;
            IOPathMatch = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/RP05@1C,4/IOPP/UPSB@0/IOPP/DSB0@0/IOPP/NHI0@0/AppleThunderboltHAL/AppleThunderboltNHIType2/IOThunderboltController/IOThunderboltLocalNode/AppleThunderboltIPService/AppleThunderboltIPPort/en3";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                UserDefinedName = "Thunderbolt 2";
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = Ethernet;
        },
                {
            "BSD Name" = en4;
            IOBuiltin = 0;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 4;
            IOMACAddress = <8c2daa33 03ea>;
            IOPathMatch = "Migrated_From: IOService:/IOResources/IOUserEthernetResource/IOUserEthernetResourceUserClient/IOUserEthernetController/en2";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                UserDefinedName = "Bluetooth PAN";
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = Ethernet;
        },
                {
            Active = 1;
            "BSD Name" = en5;
            IOBuiltin = 0;
            IOInterfaceNamePrefix = en;
            IOInterfaceType = 6;
            IOInterfaceUnit = 5;
            IOMACAddress = <001e101f 0001>;
            IOPathMatch = "IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/EHC1@1D/AppleUSBEHCI/HUAWEI Mobile@1d110000/IOUSBInterface@4/HuaweiDataCardECMData/en5";
            SCNetworkInterfaceInfo =             {
                "USB Product Name" = "HUAWEI Mobile";
                UserDefinedName = MBBEthernet;
                idProduct = 5382;
                idVendor = 4817;
            };
            SCNetworkInterfaceType = Ethernet;
        }
    );
    Model = "iMac13,1";
}

В дополнение к сказанному iklier о имя устройства для Wi-Fi находится en0 в ноутбуках без порта ethernet и en1 в МКВ с одного Ethernet-порт, он тоже en2 по крайней мере, в некоторых Mac Pro с двумя портами ethernet.