From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 16:02:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04699 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:02:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04613 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:02:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27197; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:32:20 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901272124.NAA15248@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:41:06 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, (Doug Rabson) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Jan-99 Archie Cobbs wrote: > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could > do using netgraph, with some work). Me too :) Of course you'd have to be able to do things like 'wire down' your ethernet card etc.. But the idea is nice IMHO :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message