lee wrote: > Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 12/19/2016 10:15 AM, lee wrote: >>> "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: >>> >>>> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one >>>> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. >>> Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports. >> Not in any of the computers I've built. Generally only high end or >> workstation/server boards have two ports. >> >> i.e. not what the typical home user would buy. > It is not reasonable to assume that a "typical home user" would want a > computer with a crappy board to run Linux on it (or for anything > else). If they are that cheap, they're better off buying a used one. > When they are sufficiently clueless to want something like that, what > does it matter what the network interfaces are called. >
I built my current rig just a few years ago. It has one ethernet port on it. Since it didn't work right, bad drivers I guess, I added a card to have the second port. The rig I built before that, it also had one ethernet port. I might add, I didn't buy a "crappy board" either. The first was Abit which was the top rated brand at the time and my current board is Gigabyte, another highly rated board at the time I bought it. As Daniel points out, you have to get into some pretty high end boards before you get two ethernet ports. Just for giggles, I went and looked at Asus boards, currently highly rated. I had to get up around the $400 range to find two ports. Most computers built for home use, and even some, maybe most, business computers, only have one port. It's all they need. I might also add, I have a lot of friends that give me their old computers. Of all the puters I have ever seen, they had one ethernet port. Over the past decade or so, I've likely stripped out a few dozen computers for parts. Not one of them had two ethernet ports. I'm with Daniel on this one. Dale :-) :-)
