From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 4 03:03:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24899 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 03:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from speed.rcc.on.ca (radio163.mipps.net [205.189.197.163] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA24894 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 03:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oscentral@usa.net) Received: from a20.my.intranet ([207.164.233.98]) by speed.rcc.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA16452 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:13:18 -0500 From: Rod Taylor To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Cards Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:01:52 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.9] Content-Type: text/plain References: <36B9717C.EBDE13@newsguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99020406025800.09173@a20.my.intranet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But then if I added another say ed0, it wouldn't get eth2 :) But yeah, I understand where you're going... >> 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 -- Rod Taylor Proud Member of Team OS/2 User of FreeBSD & KDE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message