From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 8:41:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25BA37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B29EA91E; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:40:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:40:32 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Peter Cc: michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <20010411104032.A6221@cec.wustl.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fbsdq@yahoo.com on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:35:51AM -0600 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:35:51AM -0600, Peter wrote: > Would it not be possible to just create links from like /dev/eth0 to > /dev/rl0 ? > > If hardware changes, just change the link. No, the network devices are virtual ones. There is no device node corresponding to each device. Just think about it, do you really want dozens of device inodes just to accomodate every potential NIC? On a second note, please fix your MUA to wrap text at >80 characters... it makes text easier to read. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message