From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 9:48:21 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 B02F937B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BD9D3A91E; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:47:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:47:02 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Robert Clark , michael@tenzo.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <20010418114702.B68096@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010417215639.A54277@darkstar.gte.net> <006801c0c7d6$d5ff9700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006801c0c7d6$d5ff9700$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:49AM -0700 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:11:49AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > No, that's not what I meant. Note that in that post I > never said that I _didn't like_ having to test each port. :-) > > What I was merely point out is that the original poster was > saying that the "eth0, eth1, eth2..." way of doing things is > superior, and I was just responding that "no, it has problems > too, such as matching up ports to nics" then following it > with an example of ed0, ed1, ed2... I figured that the poster > would be able to grasp that there's no difference between > eth0, eth1, eth2,,, and ed0, ed1, ed2,,, for what he seemed > to think was desirable behavior for having everything named > the same. > > As a matter of fact, I actually don't advocate using different > NICS in routers, because if they are all the same then you > can make a custom compiled kernel a little smaller since you > only have to include 1 nic driver in it. I actually keep different NICs in my router. The extra space used is trivial; PicoBSD still fits on a single floppy. The reason isn't technical, it's just so that I can remember what NIC is what. I touch the box less often than every month, and I don't remember if it's ed1 or ed0 that is connected to my cable modem. But I do remember that dc0 is connected to my hub, which means ed0 must be connected to my cable modem. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message