Re: What happened to network devices?'
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:06:49AM -0500, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> was heard to say:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> > > > > So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using
> > > > > "eth0" or "/dev/eth0" before, so I didn't check if such a file
> > > > > existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be
> > > > > represented under /dev.
> > > >
> > > > Not so, at least on Linux.
> >
> > On 03.06.09 10:51, lee wrote:
> > > Well, all devices are supposed to be available under /dev.
> >
> > Who told you that? I have never heard of this and I work with linux since
> > 1997...
>
> I've read that a long time ago. Who told you otherwise?
Block and character devices are available under /dev. Linux has
always given network devices their own namespace.
Daniel
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