From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 10:48:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22B037BAA4 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FXU00AMORUPQ5@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:42:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA50511; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:40:54 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:40:53 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: nic cards In-reply-to: <01BFEFE7.C21FC8D0.gjohnson@gs.verio.net> To: Tony Johnson Cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000717124053.D48019@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <01BFEFE7.C21FC8D0.gjohnson@gs.verio.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, July 17, 2000, Tony Johnson wrote: > 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. ``eth0'' is no more portable than ``fxp0''. Just because Linux does it doesn't mean it's standard or portable. -- |Chris Costello |MIPS: Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed. `------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message