In <20090530163014.gh1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >> >Anyway, I'd like to know what happened >> >to /dev/eth0. >> I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only >> been using it as my main OS since the end of 2004. >So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using >"eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before.
In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the raw kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname. Usually, I've only done this for "lo", though. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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