From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 22:54:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03321 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:54:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.aros.net ([205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03316 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:54:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id XAA14522; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:52:35 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199604040652.XAA14522@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: if_ed(2) To: koshy@india.hp.com (A JOSEPH KOSHY) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:52:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: install@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199604040417.AA005441467@fakir.india.hp.com> from A JOSEPH KOSHY at "Apr 4, 96 09:47:47 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Call it a guess: Because this way it's easier to autosense ISA-based ethernet cards, because you can have two default configurations to take a stab at likely setups. Of course, I've *never* had the default configuration match my ethernet cards, but perhaps I've just had odd luck that way. Now that there's a visual configuration editor, it should be much easier for a first-time user to setup, so the need seems to be less. *shrugs* The other issue would be that it's an attempt to make the GENERIC kernel as widely applicable as you can; if you want the machine to act as an ethernet gateway, you'd need the two interfaces, and that may be a "common" enough application. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, A JOSEPH KOSHY once said: > > Why does the GENERIC kernel contain ed0 and ed1 built in? > > Not many people use two network cards (those who do can always build > another kernel). With the addition of the boot time configuration > wouldn't just one ed driver suffice for most people? > > Koshy > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."