From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 17:28:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (hand.dotat.at [212.240.134.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A109137B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13eo2J-000Do4-00; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:28:23 +0000 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:28:23 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Terry Lambert Cc: Jamie Bowden , Robert Clark , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ideas about network interfaces. Message-ID: <20000929002823.X50343@hand.dotat.at> References: <200009281327.GAA27351@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009281327.GAA27351@usr05.primenet.com> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > >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. My direct experience is with 2.5.1 and 2.6 but I know of no reason for 7 or 8 to be different. I mentioned le and hme already but there's also a different interface name for fddi and cddi, and ISTR some odd sparc clone which had yet another interface type. Sorry, I've lost the specific details in the mists of time :-) >I know that FreeBSD's semirandom naming caused me problems, when >software that needed to be deployed on more rational systems >contained shell scrips for getting the current IP address, which >failed on FreeBSD, and the person who hacked them up for FreeBSD >ended up temporarily breaking the deployment platform (out of the >two, the deployment platform was a hell of a lot more important, >since it could impact real customers). You'll lose for a far more basic reason than that. Solaris and Linux have a completely different way of aliasing interfaces than FreeBSD, and the output from ifconfig is amusingly variable across platforms. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message