From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 14:17:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BB337B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:17:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pravda.tenzo.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 364163F25 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael O'Henly Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com Organization: TENZO Design To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Naming ethernet NICs Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:17:36 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041014173602.01788@pravda.tenzo.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In Linux, my two NICs were referred to (always) as eth0 and eth1. In FreeBSD, they're called rl0 and xl0. These names seem to relate to the driver (i.e., rl0 is a Realtek 1839). Is this actually the case or am I misunderstanding something? Are there occasions when you'd refer to them in a more abstract way -- e.g., eth0/1? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message