From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 3:34:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (hand.dotat.at [212.240.134.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 330AC37B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13eb19-000Icn-00; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:34:19 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:34:17 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Terry Lambert Cc: Robert Clark , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. Message-ID: <20000928103417.Z76573@hand.dotat.at> References: <200009280418.VAA01234@gte.net> <200009280822.BAA11602@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009280822.BAA11602@usr02.primenet.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> Would it make sense to have network device names abstracted one layer more? >> In other words, would it make it easier for new users, if all network >> drivers were mapped to something like et0? > >FWIW, for AIX, Linux, SVR4, Solaris, and other modern OSs, the >names are assigned sequentially, starting with en0, so as to >not require script or other configuration changes. IME Solaris, like FreeBSD, uses a different network device name for different drivers, e.g. le, hme, etc. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message