On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Richard Elling <Richard.Elling at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > > "Brilliant!" > > > > > > +1 > > > > > If you ask me, this is a prime opportunity to make things a little > > friendlier for folks coming from the GNU/Linux world. > > > > We could name the interfaces eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, etc. > > > > > > I'd prefer "net" over "eth" because many common networks aren't > ethernet anymore. In other words, it seems weird to me that my > laptop claims "en0" is 802.3 while "en1" is 802.11.
As I mentioned, I prefer net0, net1, etc. as its generic. But eth0, eth1 is more familiar to GNU/Linux users. -- Shawn Walker "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
