On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:27:33AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Pardon me if I'm being dense, but I don't understand what your proposal > > does that the existing interface config tools do not. Can you give a > > description (not code) of what you're trying to accomplish? > > He wants it to "just work" with an unknown card. FreeBSD does not > name ethernet interfaces "en0, en1, ... enN" like real UNIX or even > Linux, it names them after the driver, which is different per card > type.
Once the if_xname patch is in, it will be exceedingly simple to add some code to ether_ifattach to do that if you really want. You probably wouldn't get too many objections if it were optional and controled by a sysctl and/or tuneable. BTW, I'm amused that Solaris apparely isn't a real UNIX (ge0, hme0). :-) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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