Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
I have no experience with Abit, and I can tell you from experience with a couple of them that Gigabyte is the worst junk for a board you can buy and that their support has no idea what they are doing. > 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. The last time I got a board that didn't have two ports is about 20 years ago, and I never bought one for 400. They all just have 2, needed or not, even cheap ones.
