From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 4:33:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4C637B422 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3B87F755B; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387371D89; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Tony Finch Cc: Terry Lambert , Robert Clark , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. In-Reply-To: <20000928103417.Z76573@hand.dotat.at> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Tony Finch wrote: :Terry Lambert wrote: :>> :>> Would it make sense to have network device names abstracted one layer more? :>> In other words, would it make it easier for new users, if all network :>> drivers were mapped to something like et0? :> :>FWIW, for AIX, Linux, SVR4, Solaris, and other modern OSs, the :>names are assigned sequentially, starting with en0, so as to :>not require script or other configuration changes. : :IME Solaris, like FreeBSD, uses a different network device name for :different drivers, e.g. le, hme, etc. Irix still uses different device names as well: ef0: flags=415c43 et0: flags=400c43 ec0: flags=400c43 Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message