On Monday 07 December 2020 10:20:18 Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote:
> > Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ?
> > They don't appear there on my machines...
>
> They used to, and that has always been the first place I check when
> the net doesn't come up.
They have never been present in /dev under Linux. Maybe you're
thinking of some other operating system.
I did a quick google search just to make sure I'm not hallucinating
this, and found a thread from a Red Hat mailing list in 2002 saying
basically the same thing.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/guinness-list/2002-October/msg00031.ht
ml
I could be confused, but I think it was in RH-5.0, my first linux install
in late '98?