upgrade to rawhide report

Pekka Pietikainen pp at ee.oulu.fi
Mon Aug 23 19:44:56 UTC 2004


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:04:49AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:02:12AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 	We run the scripts
> > What's the story on this "wifi0" "sit0" stuff, btw?
> 
> wifi* is people who do their own thing for some reason. Its an 802.* device
> so eth* would have made more sense. sit0 is the 6 in 4 tunnel device.
wifiX is typically layer2 stuff which is used with monitor mode to see beacons
etc., and ethX is the one that looks and smells like Ethernet. 

Of course then there's wlanX, wlanXsta, wlanXap and athX too :-)

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen





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