>Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know. >So if I get you right, eth0 is kinda like ppp? >Interface, not a device? That just seems odd, the way >I've seen it referred to in conversation. I knew I >was missing something.
If you know C, the following can help explain it: You cannot open(2) /dev/eth0 and then write(2) to it to communicate; instead you have to get a socket, then send(2) a message to the socket. If eth0 were a file in /dev, it would be very tempting to open it as a file, which wouldn't work. Carl
