Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:43:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching to if_xname from if_name and if_unit Message-ID: <200207271743.g6RHhRoo085585@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200207271709.g6RH9nSW034764@mail.meer.net> References: <des@ofug.org> <xzpznwdl8rk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200207271709.g6RH9nSW034764@mail.meer.net>
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<<On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:09:49 -0700, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> said: > I've always wondered why interfaces have names at all. They should be > identified > by port IMHO, and the name is just something you query on the port. > Then the names could be meaningful strings. What do you mean ``identified by port''? A name is still a name even if you call it a ``port''. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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