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Re: What happened to network devices?



In <[🔎] 20090530163014.GH1901@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.GF1901@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.
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