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On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote:
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<pre wrap="">biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0!
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Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell servers ATM.
But, yes, a different way of looking at NICs is coming down the pipe. It's about time.
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EGADS Why? After working with FreeBSD for ten years it so nice not
to have to worry is this rl0, vr0, em0, fxp0, bge0, ed0, <br>
etc in networking scripts. Why would you want to go back to that?<br>
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