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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 1998 11:22:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        finrod@ewox.org (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: s/bpfilter/bpf/
Message-ID:  <199810291922.LAA27011@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <86u30n7bk9.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Oct 29, 98 02:16:38 pm"

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Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav writes:
> While in Arnhem, I discussed renaming the bpfilter pseudo-device to
> bpf. There seemed to be agreement that it would be more consistent
> (amongst other items, the device nodes are named /dev/bpf*, and the
> man page is bpf(4)).

While you're at it, could you also fix the /dev/MAKEDEV script
so if you say sh MAKEDEV bpf3 it makes bpf0, bpf1, and bpf2 as
well?

It does this for tunX but not bpfX, for some reason.. why the
inconsistency?

Thanks,
-Archie

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