From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 9 11:41:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA19512 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:41:06 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA19497 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:41:03 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12491; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:39:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:39:37 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503091939.AA12491@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ethernet interface AUI, UTP and BNC ports In-Reply-To: References: Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < Given the number of questions users, new and old, keep asking about the correct > ifconfig options for using the various ports on an interface, doesn't make > sense to define AUI, UTP, and BNC as some alias of link0-2 in ifconfig? No. The drivers (and ifconfig(8)) should be fixed to use the type field that I defined a couple of months ago, and stop abusing the flags in this way. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant