From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 19 12:45:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ywing.creative.net.au (ywing.creative.net.au [203.56.168.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A88B37C018 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ywing.creative.net.au) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by ywing.creative.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA45527; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:53:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:53:03 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd To: Tony Johnson Cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: nic cards Message-ID: <20000719215303.A44512@ywing.creative.net.au> References: <01BFEFE7.C21FC8D0.gjohnson@gs.verio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <01BFEFE7.C21FC8D0.gjohnson@gs.verio.net>; from gjohnson@gs.verio.net on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 12:08:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 17, 2000, Tony Johnson wrote: > One thing that I just noticed on the python mailing list is a portable way > of retrieving an ip addy. Why not start using eth0 (unfortunately as they > do in Linuxland) eth1 ... For nic cards instead of fxp0 for an intel, > etc... > > The fxp0 way is too hardware and implementation dependant. ifconfig -a ? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Now 17-year-olds can't play a _video game_ because its called violent - and real violence is still called dinner. -- jamie@mccarthy.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message