Hi Folks, This thing came to my mind yesterday. Post build 83 we have Clearview Vanity Naming support for network devices: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/vnamingsol.jsp
What this means that instead of a little unfamiliar network interface names like bge0, e1000g0 and so on we can have things like eth0, eth1, wifi0 etc. The article above mentions commands that can be used to rename network devices and also see the real logical name to physical name mappings. I was wondering why not introduce an SMF service to make this automatic so that BeleniX will by default show up the familiar names and bridge a usability gap. This also makes getting a bunch of networking related software to work much easier. What do people think ? Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
