12-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
incredible
hme - happy meal ethernet
eri - eri Fast-Ethernet device
So eri means "eri Fast-Ethernet device".... is that supposed to be like GNU? Someone missed the point of a recursive acronym. "eri rocking interface" might have worked.
I hear the "happy meal" thing a lot, but no one can tell me why someone would name an interface "happy meal". I guess Cassini, while a bit more "uptown", is ultimately just as opaque. I have been told that "le" is "lance ethernet", I can only hope that some dude named "Lance" invented the thing. Can anyone explain these names?
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bpqparms
BPQPARMS(8) Linux System Managers Manual BPQPARMS(8)
NAME
bpqparms - Configure BPQ ethernet devices.
SYNOPSIS
bpqparms device [-a ethaddr] [-d ethaddr] [-vV]
DESCRIPTION
Bpqparms allows the setting of the BPQ Ethernet options for a particular device. Each BPQ Ethernet device appears as a device named
bpq0...bpqN which overlays the original Ethernet device, usually eth0...ethN. This device is an AX.25 device driver and allows AX.25 frames
to be transmitted over an Ethernet to another machine using the same protocol. The default for the device is to send and receive BPQ Ether-
net packets to the broadcast address. This program replaces the previous "axparms -dev" option.
OPTIONS
-a ethaddr Allows the setting of which ethernet address will be accepted by the BPQ Ethernet device.
-d ethaddr If specified on its own, will set the destination ethernet address will be used for transmitting and for receiving of BPQ
ethernet packets. An address of "broadcast" sets it to the ethernet broadcast address.
-v Displays the version number.
-V The original version messages.
SEE ALSO
ax25(4), axports(5), ifconfig(8).
AUTHOR
Joerg Reuter DL1BKE <jreuter@poboxes.com>
Linux 4 September 1996 BPQPARMS(8)