Re: interface renaming

[Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:

> -On [20031031 20:32], Richard Coleman (richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > There was a big commit to FreeBSD-current to do interface renaming to 
> > bring it in line with other *BSD.  Below is the commit message.  Is this 
> > change of interest for DFBSD?  If so, I could start work on it.
>
>
> I haven't paid attention to many kernel lists, so I have to ask you,
> what would this mean in the end?  That all ethernet interfaces, for
> example, are named like Linux does: eth0, eth1, what now might be xl0
> and fxp0?

Brook's message to this list a few minutes ago explains it better than I 
could.  That's not surprising, since he is doing the committing to 
FreeBSD-current.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx