Re: Definition of interfaces in ifconfig

2003-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 03:58:17PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I do: # ifconfig I see the following interfaces listed: tx0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.254.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.254.255 inet6

RE: Definition of interfaces in ifconfig

2003-08-16 Thread Charles Howse
Can I get rid of some of these guys? How? You can get rid of the superfluous interfaces by building yourself a custom kernel with the drivers for those devices commented out. Be sure and check the man pages (eg sl(4), ppp(4), faith(4)) and in LINT (4.x) or NOTES (5.x) to verify you

Re: Definition of interfaces in ifconfig

2003-08-16 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:57:18PM -0500 or thereabouts, Charles Howse wrote: I'm currently running a custom kernel, with just the cpu specified and maxusers = 0 I edited a new copy of that, took out quite a bit more that I don't need - raid, scsi, wi-fi, pcmcia, etc. I did: # cd

RE: Definition of interfaces in ifconfig

2003-08-16 Thread Charles Howse
Look at these comments carefully. ...snip... #device scbus # SCSI bus (required) #device da # Direct Access (disks) ...snip... device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da