| From: | Brooks Davis <brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:24:52 -0800 |
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > -On [20031031 21:12], Brooks Davis (brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >In FreeBSD I'll probably implement an tunable to make that possiable, > >but it definatly won't be the default. > > Glad to hear that. > > I mean, from a certain perspective I can understand that you don't know > to know whether or not a particular interface is an Intel card or a 3Com > card and both should just be named ethN, for example. But it always > made sense in my mind, at least, to differentiate on the interface name > level between the different vendors to know which card you are messing > with. I agree. When I was talking to Warner Losh at BSDCon we pretty much agreed that when you don't want to care which brand of interface is in a slot, devd was going to be the answer. You'd tell devd to run a script on any ethernet card on bus X in slot Y to name it what ever you wanted. The rest of your configuration could forget that it was a Foo Corp. 10/100T card and just call it "uplink" or what ever. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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