Re: Wireless Network Maintainer?

From: Toon van der Pas (toon_at_hout.vanvergehaald.nl)
Date: 10/10/03

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    On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
    > Nico Schottelius wrote :
    > >
    > > - device naming scheme should be wlanX -> easier to see what it is
    >
    > There are pros and cons to that. Personally I prefer the approach
    > taken by the aironet driver (ethX + wifiX). The interface the
    > driver present to the kernel is *really* an Ethernet interface.
    > If you really want easy identification, we could take the *BSD
    > approach where every driver use it's own unique device name.

    Please don't do that. Leave it as it is.
    If somebody is not happy with the ethX names, use the nameif utility
    to change them into more descriptive names. I've successfully done that
    on my firewall machine. It looks like this:

    # ifconfig -a|grep "Link encap"|awk '{print $1}'
    dmz
    lo
    loc
    net

    The nameif utility also is the right tool to link a device name
    to an ethernet hardware (MAC) address, so you'll never run into
    surprises again. Check out my cute little table:

    # cat /etc/mactab
    loc 00:40:F4:47:EA:65
    dmz 00:40:F4:47:EA:64
    net 00:40:F4:47:EA:63

    And hey, it's all done in userspace, the holy grail! :-)

    Regards,
    Toon.
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