On 1/27/16 1:23 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 27/01/16 11:13, jdow wrote:
>>>
>> Fascinating. I made a bad "assumption" about network devices. It seems they
>> are created dynamically without any presence in /dev.
>
> IIRC, *BSD provides /dev nodes for network devices which the user-space can
> use for configuring it and such. But it's many years since I played with
> FreeBSD, so my memory is scarce.
>
Nope, BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) do not show any network devices under /dev. And
kernel device configuration is done via sysctl commands as opposed to using
/sysfs in linux.
Patrick Mahan