Subject: RE: [netatalk-admins] STREAMS ???
From: Wilkins M (ISD) (mwilkins@glam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 20 1998 - 08:26:36 EST
"eth" is a generic ethernet interface found on many *n?xes. "le" is
"Lance Ethernet", AFAIK it's a Sun Only Thing. (probably referring to an
AMD Lance ethernet chip.
Cheers!
M.
> ----------
> From: Alistair Riddell[SMTP:alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk]
> Sent: 20 February 1998 00:04
> To: Bernard Giroux
> Cc: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] STREAMS ???
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bernard Giroux wrote:
>
> > I'd like to know the difference le0 or eth0 in atalkd.conf make.
> Also, I
> > just restarted "sh rc.atalkd start" with eth0 in atalkd.conf to get:
>
> Some Unices call their Ethernet interfaces le and others eth. I have
> no
> idea why this is so, but presumably things won't work unless you use
> the
> one appropriate to your platform.
>
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