From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 14:27: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E1637B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d]) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14n5em-0005MX-00; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:26:36 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3ALQa209230; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:26:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:26:36 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Michael O'Henly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Naming ethernet NICs Message-ID: <20010410222635.E8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <01041014173602.01788@pravda.tenzo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01041014173602.01788@pravda.tenzo.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael O'Henly wrote: > In Linux, my two NICs were referred to (always) as eth0 and eth1. In FreeBSD, > they're called rl0 and xl0. These names seem to relate to the driver (i.e., > rl0 is a Realtek 1839). > > Is this actually the case or am I misunderstanding something? Are there > occasions when you'd refer to them in a more abstract way -- e.g., eth0/1? You are quite correct, and no, names like eth are never used in FreeBSD. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message