Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:23:30 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette), current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ethernet interface AUI, UTP and BNC ports Message-ID: <199503092223.OAA00478@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:39:37 EST." <9503091939.AA12491@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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><<On Wed, 8 Mar 95 20:44 CST, steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) said: > >> Given the number of questions users, new and old, keep asking about the corr >ect >> ifconfig options for using the various ports on an interface, doesn't make >> sense to define AUI, UTP, and BNC as some alias of link0-2 in ifconfig? > >No. The drivers (and ifconfig(8)) should be fixed to use the type >field that I defined a couple of months ago, and stop abusing the >flags in this way. > >-GAWollman Can you give a rough outline of the work needed so that others can start it if you don't have the time? I'm so sick of answering the link2 questions, that I'd like to make this happen as soon as possible. Thanks. >-- >Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... >wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. >Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like peopl >e >MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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