Date: 28 Sep 2000 15:41:06 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ragnar@sysabend.org (Jamie Bowden), dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch), res03db2@gte.net (Robert Clark), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. Message-ID: <xzpog18fxcd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:27:49 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <200009281327.GAA27351@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> writes:
> I don't know if the Solaris in question is 2.7 or not; I know
> SunOS (BSD4.3 derived) used different names, but most Sun
> machines rendered this to "le0", "le1", ... "leN", due to the
> "wide availability" of non-Lance based cards.
Solaris 2.7 still uses different names for different interface types.
SunOS hungr.ifi.uio.no 5.7 Generic_106541-09 sun4u sparc
des@hungr ~% ifconfig hme0
hme0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 129.240.64.74 netmask fffff800 broadcast 129.240.71.255
> In any case, neither one is a good argument for _not_ having
> standard interface names for 1..N interfaces, and the "en"
> prefix appears to be pretty widespread for this use.
Define 'pretty widespread'. Our closest competitor - Linux - uses
'eth'.
> If nothing else, "en" based aliases could be providedm and if
> people wanted to name them explicitly instead, and have to
> hack up the interface names in all their scripts, they could
> still do that (if they were insane).
Everybody who does not agree with you, or is satisfied with a system
you dislike, is insane?
DES
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