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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:22:20 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Cc:        "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ds0 interface (was Re: new network device that appeared on it's own)
Message-ID:  <9603072222.AA05962@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603072042.NAA02201@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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<<On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 13:42:28 -0700, Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> said:

> I think we should rename it to the 'bh0' interface then, or even better
> the 'null0' interface. *grin*

The `ds' and `disc' are for `discard'.  The short `ds' is because it's
just a modified version of `lo'.

-GAWollman

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