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Re: [MiNT] Unix future (was: Riebl Ethernet c

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:09:38AM +0000, Bernd Ebert wrote:
> Hmm, But how do you know for. eg. which interface is meant when
> you are using simply eth0, eth1, eth2,...

How do you know when using two cards of the same type? 

> Besides that this is very useful for each kind of admintool,
> because you can determine the type and the requirements of
> the interface out of its name (for e.g. setting of hw-adress).

That does sound reasonable - the rest seems to be more a matter of personal
preferences and not technical reasons.

> > Which is rather sad, because it's a realy efficient, fast and
> > easily understood kind of Unix; very SRV, yet more modern.
> 
> True.

Reading CERT and other security-related lists, it seems that it is quite
hacker-friendly ;-)

cu
Michael
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