From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 10:38:43 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 88D9A37B401; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:38:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189B443E97; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAJIbws7025970; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:37:58 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gAJIbwj5025967; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:37:58 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:37:58 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Terry Lambert Cc: Doug Barton , Rich Morin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: auto-definition of a single network interface Message-ID: <20021119103756.B17963@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3DD9EA96.F4DEC169@FreeBSD.org> <3DD9F5F5.C5637707@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DD9F5F5.C5637707@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:27:33AM -0800 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu 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 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:27:33AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? >=20 > 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. Once the if_xname patch is in, it will be exceedingly simple to add some code to ether_ifattach to do that if you really want. You probably wouldn't get too many objections if it were optional and controled by a sysctl and/or tuneable. BTW, I'm amused that Solaris apparely isn't a real UNIX (ge0, hme0). :-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE92oUDXY6L6fI4GtQRAlvIAKCWW9pVuD1jjMpHLmjivmOArXypkACdFtc/ VN9VFzIyFFy+ElFP4wllOnI= =CehA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message