On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: > > Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ? > > They don't appear there on my machines... > > > They used to, and that has always been the first place I check when the > net doesn't come up.
They have never been present in /dev under Linux. Maybe you're thinking of some other operating system. I did a quick google search just to make sure I'm not hallucinating this, and found a thread from a Red Hat mailing list in 2002 saying basically the same thing. https://www.redhat.com/archives/guinness-list/2002-October/msg00031.html