Hi all.

There is no ex0 in my dmesg output.  With no network interface my only option is to transcribe by hand....

At any rate, the more general question is how to identify the device.  If it always displays the line with "MAC" and the MAC address, then that would be the answer I was looking for.

Based on the info you provided, it looks like the eon0 device is for OSI over IP.

Thanks!!




At Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:41:11 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Lets Go Canes! wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>> 
>>      Just installed NetBSD on a Sony VAIO PCG-F360 laptop.  This laptop has a docking station with an Ethernet port.  I'm trying to configure the network, but first I need to know which device to use with ifconfig.
>> 
>>     So, how does one tell which device is the network adapter?
>
>Can you post a copy of the output from "dmesg"? On my Sony VAIO PCG-N505VX
>I see the following section from dmesg about my Ethernet card:
>
>ex0 at cardbus0 dev 0 function 0: 3Com 3c575B-TX Ethernet
>ex0: interrupting at 9  
>ex0: MAC address 00:50:da:99:e6:ae
>tqphy0 at ex0 phy 0: 78Q2120 10/100 media interface, rev. 11
>tqphy0: 10baseT, 100baseTX, auto
>
>
>>     On a related note, netstat -i lists the interfaces provided below.  
>>     Can someone please confirm the identity of the inerfaces, and
>>     indicate what the unknown (to me) interfaces are?
>> 
>> lo0 - loopback
>> ppp0 - point-to-point
>> ppp1 - point-to-point (different from ppp0?)
>
>ppp1 is the second ppp network interface available.
>
>> sl0 - SLIP
>> sl1 - SLIP (different from sl0?)
>
>sl1 is the second sl network interface available. I think you see how this
>goes... you have the network interface name and the number at the end is
>the number of that type of interface in the system, starting from 0.
>
>> strip - ???
>> strip - ??? (yes, it is listed twice; truncated name?)
>
>"man 4 strip" reports "strip - Metricom Ricochet packet radio wireless
>network device"
>
>> tun0 - ???  IP tunnel of some sort?
>> tun1 - ???  IP tunnel of some sort?
>
>"man 4 tun" reports "tun - tunnel software network interface"
>
>> gre0 - ???
>> gre1 - ???
>
>"man 4 gre" reports "gre - encapsulating network device"
>
>> ipip0 - ???
>> ipip1 - ???
>
>"man 4 ipip" reports "ipip - encapsulating network device"
>
>> eon0 - ???
>
>Not really sure about this one. There are some references to this in the
>directory /usr/src/sys/netinet:
>
>palomino:bstark$ grep -i EON *
>in.h:#define    IPPROTO_EON             80              /* ISO cnlp */
>in_proto.c:#include "opt_eon.h"                 /* ISO CLNL over IP */
>in_proto.c:#ifdef EON
>in_proto.c:#include <netiso/eonvar.h>
>in_proto.c:#endif /* EON */
>in_proto.c:/* EON (ISO CLNL over IP) */
>in_proto.c:#ifdef EON
>in_proto.c:{ SOCK_RAW,  &inetdomain,    IPPROTO_EON,    0,
>in_proto.c:  eoninput,  0,              eonctlinput,            0,
>in_proto.c:  eonprotoinit,      0,              0,              0,
>in_proto.c:#endif /* EON */
>ip_state.c:      * in fin_mp such that if someone uses it we'll get
>ip_state.c:      * in fin_mp such that if someone uses it we'll get
>tcp_input.c:             * soreceive.  It's hard to imagine someone
>tcp_output.c:    * I'm not quite sure about this (could someone comment).
>palomino:bstark$ 
>
>Perhaps someone else could elaborate on this...
>
>Looking at my notes, here are some RFCs that may be of some interest:
>
>rfc1701.txt Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)   (obsoleted by 2784????)
>rfc1702.txt Generic Routing Encapsulation over IPv4 networks
>rfc2003.txt IP Encapsulation within IP
>rfc2004.txt Minimal Encapsulation within IP
>rfc2784.txt Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
>
>Brian
>
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