Re: where is the /dev/eth0?
Tom Si <[email protected]>
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Tom Pollerman wrote: >On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:07:47 +0800 >Tom Si <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello >>> >>>Seek and yee shall find...... >>> >>>eth0 or eth1 are located under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts >>> >>>There you shall find what you are looking for. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Hi, >>Fristly Thanks for Syed.Imam's reply. >>But refer the network-scripts, there is a file named ifcfg-eth0. In >>the file, they tell me: device=eth0?? >>But I still don't know where is the eth0! >>Need your more help. >> >> >> >> > > " In many Unix operating systems the network devices have >appearances in the /dev directory. This is not so in Linux. In Linux >the network devices are created dynamically in software and do not >require device files to be present. > > In the majority of cases the network device is automatically created > by the device driver while it is initializing and has located your > hardware. For example, the ethernet device driver creates eth[0..n] > interfaces sequentially as it locates your ethernet hardware. The > first ethernet card found becomes eth0, the second eth1 etc." > >This was quoted from NET-3-HOWTO in the /doc/HOWTO directory of my RH >6.0 Install cdrom. > You can see the settings for configured ethernet devices in the >/proc/net/dev 'pseudo file.' Or, do: > > ifconfig <enter> > >Read 'man ifconfig' for more info. > > Regards, > > Tom > > > >_______________________________________________ >Guinness-list mailing list >[email protected] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/guinness-list > > > > Thanks for your help, I think I am clear how about it with your help. Thanks again. Tom