[Bulk] Re: [Xorp-hackers] Some thoughts

Adam Greenhalgh a.greenhalgh@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:51:20 -0500


Equally freebsd supports interface renaming so you no longer need to
have interface names based on the driver. I thought linux supported
interface renaming too, but I can't seem to find a reference. So
perhaps one idea for xorp might be to provide unified naming across
os's ;-)

adam

On 08/11/05, Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee> wrote:
> Mark Handley wrote:
> > On FreeBSD you can create as many vlan virtual interfaces as you need.
> >  But there's only on namespace.  For example (trimmed a little to
> > remove IP addresses, etc):
>
> For clarification - according to this presentation -
> http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf, FreeBSD 5.3
> supports <interface>.<tag> naming as well (see page 8). Not that it
> should change something.
>
>
> --
> Hasso Tepper
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