On 2016-01-28 14:33, Patrick Mahan wrote:
> 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

Was that true a decade and a half ago give or take a little?

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