dyo...@pobox.com said: > Then we can, as you suggested at the top of this thread, create the > ether(4) pseudo-device that is analogous to audio(4). Let us attach a > particular ether(4) instance to an ethernet h/w instance according to > the h/w's properties.
This looks somewhat shortsighted. "ethernet" is no interface in a technical sense anymore. It is just perhaps a tag put at protocols which use 48-bit MAC addresses and can be bridged to other protocols of that kind. But then, where do draw the line? FDDI can be bridged to ethernet as well, so would you call it "ether"? Besides that, I don't see how this could solve any real-world problem which a trivial shell script can't deal with. best regards Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
