On Monday 07 December 2020 10:20:18 Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.ht >ml
I could be confused, but I think it was in RH-5.0, my first linux install in late '98? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>