From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 13:07:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16056 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:07:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16030 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA38573; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:12:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:12:53 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: sthaug@nethelp.no cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, archie@whistle.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS, the time has come... In-Reply-To: <7987.917514435@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > > 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. That's why you don't hard code the interfaces into all the scripts. Instead source a file that gives the definitions ala rc.conf. > Personally, I'd also prefer to have IDE disks named daN, but that's > another matter... :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message