On 27-Jan-99 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I agree.. and same thing goes for Ethernet drivers. I actually > > like the way Linux always has "eth0", "eth1", ... (which we could > Yeagh... what is wrong with ed0, de0, fxp0 etc that needs changing? Is this > just a matter of taste or is there more to it? I for one don't see any > advantage in eth[0-9] style device naming. Well, for one its sucks trying to get newbies to work out what their network card is called..
Also the eth[0..x] thing means you can replace your ethernet card with a new one of a different type without having to look through your config code for references to ed0 or whatever. Another thing.. we get to be more Linux like, which is a good thing, right? *duck* --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
