On 1/27/16 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 27/01/16 11:13, jdow wrote: >>> >> Fascinating. I made a bad "assumption" about network devices. It seems they >> are created dynamically without any presence in /dev. > > IIRC, *BSD provides /dev nodes for network devices which the user-space can > use for configuring it and such. But it's many years since I played with > FreeBSD, so my memory is scarce. >
Nope, BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) do not show any network devices under /dev. And kernel device configuration is done via sysctl commands as opposed to using /sysfs in linux. Patrick Mahan
