From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 9 14:25:02 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA24559 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:25:02 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA24553 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:25:01 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA00478; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:23:31 -0800 Message-Id: <199503092223.OAA00478@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Garrett Wollman cc: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette), current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ethernet interface AUI, UTP and BNC ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:39:37 EST." <9503091939.AA12491@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 14:23:30 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >< >> Given the number of questions users, new and old, keep asking about the corr >ect >> 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 Can you give a rough outline of the work needed so that others can start it if you don't have the time? I'm so sick of answering the link2 questions, that I'd like to make this happen as soon as possible. Thanks. >-- >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 peopl >e >MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================