Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:39:37 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ethernet interface AUI, UTP and BNC ports Message-ID: <9503091939.AA12491@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0rmYCr-000NB2C@simon.chi.il.us> References: <m0rmYCr-000NB2C@simon.chi.il.us>
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<<On Wed, 8 Mar 95 20:44 CST, steve@simon.chi.il.us (Steven E. Piette) said: > Given the number of questions users, new and old, keep asking about the correct > ifconfig options for using the various ports on an interface, doesn't make > sense to define AUI, UTP, and BNC as some alias of link0-2 in ifconfig? No. The drivers (and ifconfig(8)) should be fixed to use the type field that I defined a couple of months ago, and stop abusing the flags in this way. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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