Subject: Re: Terse device names
To: Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@hackerheaven.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/23/2002 10:11:05
> I'd have to agree here. I like the BSD way of network device naming too.
> Take linux for example, linux uses eth* for everything, which can be
> extremely annoying because you can't really see at a first glance which
> device is which (if you have different brands of nics in your box). And
> by the way, ever nic name in *BSD has a manual page. try man 5 <nic
> name> without the device number. Detailed enough for ya?

yes. and try to predict what will be eth0 and what eth6 if you have 7
same cards put :)