From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 17:55:40 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 54E9437B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:55:36 -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 D12233F25 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:55:35 -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: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:55:35 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041017553500.02141@pravda.tenzo.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 10 April 2001 14:50, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: [...] > .......... that is exactly why I stopped concentrating on Linux and > moved over to Unix based OS's to get a broader scope of things. Not > only are the NIC's named different, but the devices. [...] So if NICs are named on the basis of their type/driver, doesn't that mean a lot of reconfiguring is needed if you should happen to replace a card with something different? M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message