From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 06:22:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA01990 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 06:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA01984 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 06:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id GAA10152; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 06:22:31 -0800 Message-Id: <199602031422.GAA10152@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug White cc: "H. Jared Agnew" , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A FreeBSD firewall. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:19:09 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 06:22:31 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'll offer up my guesses... ... >> the links are link#1, I only have one ethernet card in the machine now, >> and it still reports link#2? > >Link# can also report which jack you are using. On some cards, link#1 is >the BNC connector and link#2 is the TP connector. Nice guess, but wrong. :-) You're thinking of the interface flags; very different. The "link#" should increment by one with each interface added. I think the fact that #1 doesn't exist might be an artifact of some old code in the ep driver that attempts to fill in the link address. This operation was moved out of the drivers and into if_attach() quite some time ago, but some drivers apparantly weren't updated. I think the symptom is completely benign, however, so just ignore it. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project