From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 0:29:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42D9537B401; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:29:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD15743E6E; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:29:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0120.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.120] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18E3lG-0004N2-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:29:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD9F5F5.C5637707@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:27:33 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Rich Morin , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: auto-definition of a single network interface References: <3DD9EA96.F4DEC169@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > Pardon me if I'm being dense, but I don't understand what your proposal > does that the existing interface config tools do not. Can you give a > description (not code) of what you're trying to accomplish? He wants it to "just work" with an unknown card. FreeBSD does not name ethernet interfaces "en0, en1, ... enN" like real UNIX or even Linux, it names them after the driver, which is different per card type. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message