Date: 27 Sep 1997 15:15:48 +0800 From: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu (Doug White) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Message-ID: <60ibr4$s8r$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Andrew E. Stevens wrote: > While trying to set up a gateway today, my /dev/de0 device (ethernet > card) somehow lost its device characteristics. Network interfaces don't have device special files, or in English, /dev/ directory entries, i.e. /dev/de0 doesn't really exist. It looks like you copied the /COPYRIGHT file to /dev/de0 as a test, and when you cat it back out, surprise, you get the original file back :-) It doesn't make much sense to `cat' a file down an Ethernet, it has to be chopped up into packets and you have to specify a port and destination and all that stuff which makes Ethernet work. > The same thing happened to /dev/null a couple of months ago, but since > things seemed to function normally, I ignored it. Perhaps you had some corruption in your /dev/ directory. You can usually fix errant devices by running /dev/MAKEDEV <device> as root. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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