On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:06:49AM -0500, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > > > > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using > > > > > "eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before, so I didn't check if such a file > > > > > existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be > > > > > represented under /dev. > > > > > > > > Not so, at least on Linux. > > > > On 03.06.09 10:51, lee wrote: > > > Well, all devices are supposed to be available under /dev. > > > > Who told you that? I have never heard of this and I work with linux since > > 1997... > > I've read that a long time ago. Who told you otherwise?
Block and character devices are available under /dev. Linux has always given network devices their own namespace. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
