Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:09:49 -0700 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit Message-ID: <200207271709.g6RH9nSW034764@mail.meer.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> of "27 Jul 2002 13:17:51 %2B0200." <xzpznwdl8rk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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I've always wondered why interfaces have names at all. They should be identified by port IMHO, and the name is just something you query on the port. Then the names could be meaningful strings. Later, GEroge -- George V. Neville-Neil gnn@neville-neil.com Neville-Neil Consulting www.neville-neil.com "I learn only to be contented." inscription at Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, Japan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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