Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 06:22:31 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A FreeBSD firewall. Message-ID: <199602031422.GAA10152@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:19:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960203011137.16176A@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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>I'll offer up my guesses... ... >> the links are link#1, I only have one ethernet card in the machine now, >> and it still reports link#2? > >Link# can also report which jack you are using. On some cards, link#1 is >the BNC connector and link#2 is the TP connector. Nice guess, but wrong. :-) You're thinking of the interface flags; very different. The "link#" should increment by one with each interface added. I think the fact that #1 doesn't exist might be an artifact of some old code in the ep driver that attempts to fill in the link address. This operation was moved out of the drivers and into if_attach() quite some time ago, but some drivers apparantly weren't updated. I think the symptom is completely benign, however, so just ignore it. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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