On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>cdce[1] is the ethernet -over-usb driver in FreeBSD. To test it, you
>>can do 'kldload if_cdce', then see the man page.
>>Last time I tested it, it worked without problems.
>
> The cdce driver is also in OpenBSD (and presumably NetBSD); on Open at least
> it is in the generic kernel so you don't have to worry about modloading it
> or testing for it.
>
> The name is not arbitrary, btw. The USB standard defines these things as
> "Communication Device Class - Ethernet".
>
> The BSDs like to give things real names like that, compared to Linux's
> somewhat boring technique of calling all network devices "eth" (even ones
> that don't actually use Ethernet). I guess it's just a style thing... (he
> says, trying to duck the resulting flamefest)...
Indeed, and if for whatever reason you don't like it, you can always
alias it to eth? too :)
Cheers,
federico
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