[indiana-discuss] simplified network interface names for indiana?

[Richard Elling]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> "Brilliant!"
>   

+1

> If you ask me, this is a prime opportunity to make things a little
> friendlier for folks coming from the GNU/Linux world.
>
> We could name the interfaces eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, etc.
>   

I'd prefer "net" over "eth" because many common networks aren't
ethernet anymore.  In other words, it seems weird to me that my
laptop claims "en0" is 802.3 while "en1" is 802.11.
 -- richard