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Re: two mysteries
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Patrick Mahan <[log in to unmask]>
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Patrick Mahan <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:33:20 -0800
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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

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