Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10009280434110.38318-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000928103417.Z76573@hand.dotat.at>
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tony Finch wrote: :Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> 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. Irix still uses different device names as well: ef0: flags=415c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST,CKSUM,DRVRLOCK,LINK0,IPALIAS> et0: flags=400c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST,IPALIAS> ec0: flags=400c43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,FILTMULTI,MULTICAST,IPALIAS> Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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