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[philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx]

> Well, the style we're using is almost the same...
> 
> tulip0
> loop0
> ec9xx0
> 
> and so on...

And I never react to them, 'cause I'm please with current 
interfaces name rule.

> For things like ifconfig I don't, and can't see the need. BONE's
> ifconfig
> used to drive me round the wall as it required all sorts of '/' and so
> on
> that should never have been there. Let's keep is simple.

"ifconfig /dev/net/tulip/0 down ..." !?

Well, it's a half/half situation:
- I like the fact that BONE don't hide that an interface is in fact driven 
by an old BeOS net architecture kernel driver, 
by using the full driver path /dev/net/tulip/0
- Like you, I don't like to have to type fullpath on command line ;-)

Maybe ifconfig could be made a little more smarter on interface name 
argument recognition?
Anyway, let's play with names later... when the stack will be finished.

-Phil