On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 09:48:20AM +1200, Ernst du Toit wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Thanks to you and Perry., I managed to get myself going again, thanks!
> 
> Can you point me to a discussion exlaining why cloning devices are great and

I don't remember one

> the way we had it is bad? Apart from what looks like having the freedom of
> not hardwiring the number if interfaces in the kernel config file. Not to
> mention a refreshingly less cluttered ifconfig -a output :)

Well, that's the most important points I think :) For things like vlan or gif,
the hardwired number is really annoying.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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