Op zondag 28 april 2002 00:18, schreef Iggy Drougge:

[big snip]

> >> You mean something like Linux, which calls all Ethernet adaptors just
> >> eth*?
> >
> >As aliases for the real names, yes.  That would meet your request for not
> >having to think about the driver name.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea
> >to do such a thing, or how difficult it would be.  And, being quite
> >content with names such as tlp0, I have no real interest in this.  (^&
>
> OTOH, ETH0 is a bit too general, I think. It puts us back at the point
> where you have to remember something quite arbitrary. Was the internal
> interface ETH0 or ETH2?

This is where you'd have to use that old-fashioned methodology called 
'labeling'. Oh, and having it written down somewhere in a file or printed out 
and plastered over a whiteboard so you can always look it up if you're not 
sure is yet another possibility...

Although these old methods are a bit tedious (you'd have to 'write' with 
something called a 'pen' or a 'pencil' on something that's called 'paper' or 
a 'label'), they do work though. I bet ya these ways of documenting interface 
names and their function is even older than ed(1) itself :)

Cheers,
Emiel
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