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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
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Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit 
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<<On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:09:49 -0700, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> said:

> 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.

What do you mean ``identified by port''?  A name is still a name even
if you call it a ``port''.

-GAWollman


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