On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Ian Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> cdce[1] is the ethernet -over-usb driver in FreeBSD. To test it, you >> can do 'kldload if_cdce', then see the man page. >> Last time I tested it, it worked without problems. > > The cdce driver is also in OpenBSD (and presumably NetBSD); on Open at least > it is in the generic kernel so you don't have to worry about modloading it > or testing for it. > > The name is not arbitrary, btw. The USB standard defines these things as > "Communication Device Class - Ethernet". > > The BSDs like to give things real names like that, compared to Linux's > somewhat boring technique of calling all network devices "eth" (even ones > that don't actually use Ethernet). I guess it's just a style thing... (he > says, trying to duck the resulting flamefest)... Indeed, and if for whatever reason you don't like it, you can always alias it to eth? too :)
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