From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 4 02:41:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22581 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:41:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22570 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 02:41:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA25791; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:41:35 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B9717C.EBDE13@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:07:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rod Taylor CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Cards References: <99020320193400.08377@a20.my.intranet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rod Taylor wrote: > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a different > 'name'. > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > > I tried simlinking them to a common name (I have xl0, rl0, and ed0 active in my > current machine). linked to eth0, eth1, eth2 (didn't work). > > However, it would be nice if they all had a common name to the end user.. > Primarily, me.. Especially when you rip out one card, install another, then > the name changes on you... Suppose you have "xl" and "vr" in your computer. They are named eth0 and eth1, respectively. You then replace your "vr" by a "ed". Mark with an X the correct option: ( ) the names for "vr" and "ed" will be eth0 and eth1, respectively. ( ) the names for "vr" and "ed" will be eth1 and eth0, respectively. ( ) none of the above Can you see what I'm getting at here? :-) The best solution would be hardwiring the names, but in that case it doesn't matter what are the default names. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message