From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 01:07:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA11828 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA11817 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 7989 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jan 1999 09:07:15 +0000 (GMT) To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: archie@whistle.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:12:18 +0100 (CET)" References: <199901272212.XAA03458@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 10:07:15 +0100 Message-ID: <7987.917514435@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could > > Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this > just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any > advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming. I can give you one example. We run a FreeBSD box here which receives all of the traffic (port mirroring) from some Ethernet switches. On the FreeBSD box, we run nnstat, tcpdump etc. for monitoring purposes. Recently I changed some of the DEC 21x4x based cards on this box to Intel cards. Thus the interface names changed from deN to fxpN. This meant we had to update a bunch of Perl and shell scripts. It would have been much nicer (no need to update) if the interfaces were simply named ethN. Personally, I'd also prefer to have IDE disks named daN, but that's another matter... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message