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Re: How to make eth0???!?!?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Frayser)
Sat Aug 12 18:33:45 1995
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 08:44:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Louis Frayser <frayser@earthlink.net>
To: Don Harper <Don.Harper@chron.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, hlug-networking@chron.com
In-Reply-To: <9508110402.AA03159@boss02.magichron-a>
On Thu, 10 Aug 1995, Don Harper wrote:
> Okay,
> So after reading the Ether-HOWTO & the NET-2-HOWTO, I seem to not be able
> to find how to build the file /dev/eth0. What are the major/minor numbers?
> And is it a character or block dev? Thanks!
>
> Don Harper
eth0 has always been called an "interface", I've never heard it called a
device. To create the inteface, compile support for an ethernet card
into the kernel. To examine the interface use the command ifconfig, you
may have to be root to run ifconfig. Also, try the command "netstat -i".
Depending on the manufacturer of your network interface card, it may be
called something else other than eth0. There are other network
interfaces such sl0, ppp0, and lo, which are not ethernet.
-Louis
>
> --
> Don Harper, Network Specialist, Don.Harper@houston.chron.com
> Communications Office for Houston Linux Users Group
> Running Linux 1.2.12 URL: http://infocom.net/~hlug/
> I do not speak for Hearst or the Chronicle
>
>
>
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