NAME

link.d - the network drivers present, one file each

SYNOPSIS

/etc/inet/link.d/driver

DESCRIPTION

Each network driver package puts one file in /etc/inet/link.d, named for the driver's kernel module, that tells ifup(1M) how to find the driver's interfaces. The file is the driver's own data, replaced with the package; it is not edited. How each interface is set up is in /etc/inet/interfaces, not here.

The file holds one line (a # starts a comment):

prefix  node  first [major] [presence command ...]

prefix

the interface name before the unit number, as IP knows it (aen for aen0).

node

the device node before the unit number (/dev/aen for /dev/aen0).

first

the first unit number, usually 0.

major

the node's major number, needed only when the running kernel's registry does not name the module (the stock drivers, such as aen); a module's major is the registry's (kbootset major), and the column is then left out.

presence command

optional: a command that fails when no such card is fitted; the driver's units are not probed then.

ifup opens the units one after another, from first, and stops at the first that does not open.

EXAMPLE

The stock A2065's entry, /etc/inet/link.d/aen, and a module driver's, /etc/inet/link.d/z3660eth:

aen     /dev/aen    0   18   /usr/amiga/bin/aen -S
zen     /dev/zen    0

SEE ALSO

ifup(1M), interfaces(4)