From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 09:22:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23841 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23835 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.6.10/DPC-1.0) with SMTP id JAA13789 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:14:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:14:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow X-Sender: dan@cedb To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199607101250.IAA29257@mh004.infi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Steve Sims wrote: > > From: Jordan K. Hubbard > [snip] > > I would also like to remove: > > > > ed1 > > lp1 > > > Sorry, Jordan, I don't agree with yanking the ed1 device at all. The > defaults for the ed0 interface are, at least in my copy of GENERIC, are > 5/280. Nearly ALL of the NE-2000 clones (and there are gazillions of 'em) > can't use 0x280, so the ed1 device becomes the E-net port on a clean > install; 5/300 being a fairly standard HW setup. Same here, every system I install uses ed1. I know how to change it and it's no big deal, but to someone new to FreeBSD it might be. If you want to have only one ed interface, please consider changing the settings of ed0 to those currently used by ed1. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82