Re: Network Cards

1999-02-16 Thread Igor Nikolaev
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 06:01:52AM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote: > >Suppose you have "xl" and "vr" in your computer. They are named eth0 > >and eth1, respectively. You then replace your "vr" by a "ed". Mark > But then if I added another say ed0, it wouldn't get eth2 :) > But yeah, I understand where y

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Rod Taylor wrote: > > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > > > different > > > 'name'. > > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > > The best solution would be hardwiring the names, but in that case it > > doesn't

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Mike Smith
> Rod Taylor wrote: > > > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > > different > > 'name'. > > > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > > > > I tried simlinking them to a common name (I have xl0, rl0, and ed0 active > > in my > > current machine). linked to et

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Rod Taylor wrote: > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > > different > > 'name'. > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > The best solution would be hardwiring the names, but in that case it > doesn't matter what are

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Rod Taylor
But then if I added another say ed0, it wouldn't get eth2 :) But yeah, I understand where you're going... >> However, it would be nice if they all had a common name to the end user.. >> Primarily, me.. Especially when you rip out one card, install another, then >> the name changes on you... > >

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-04 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Rod Taylor wrote: > > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > different > 'name'. > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > > I tried simlinking them to a common name (I have xl0, rl0, and ed0 active in > my > current machine). linked to eth0, eth1, eth2 (didn't

Re: Network Cards

1999-02-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > I've often wondered this, but why is it that every network card has a > different > 'name'. > > xl0, rl0, vr0, ed0, etc. etc. etc > > I tried simlinking them to a common name (I have xl0, rl0, and ed0 active in > my > current machine). linked to eth0,