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From: Tony Johnson <gjohnson@gs.verio.net>
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Subject: nic cards
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:08:45 -0500
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One thing that I just noticed on the python mailing list is a portable way 
of retrieving an ip addy.  Why not start using eth0 (unfortunately as they 
do in Linuxland) eth1 ... For nic cards instead of fxp0 for an intel, 
etc...

The fxp0 way is too hardware and implementation dependant.


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