On Monday, July 17, 2000, Tony Johnson wrote:
> One thing that I just noticed on the python mailing list is a portable way
> of retrieving an ip addy. Why not start using eth0 (unfortunately as they
> do in Linuxland) eth1 ... For nic cards instead of fxp0 for an intel,
> etc...
>
> The fxp0 way is too hardware and implementation dependant.
``eth0'' is no more portable than ``fxp0''. Just because
Linux does it doesn't mean it's standard or portable.
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