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January 13, 2005
Sun Ethernet Ports
It can be a bit strange installing Sun ethernet cards. You stick in the card, reboot the server (or perform some magic device incantations) and then wonder what the heck the card is called. A colleague was asking if a SunSwift card was a hme interface*....
In the resulting conversation which involved trying to remember all of the possible interfaces, my colleague remembered one that I had forgotten - the good old qfe (quad-fast-ethernet). So we put together a quick rhyme (loosely to the tune of Aye-Bee-Cee):
Lee (le), Bee (be), Cee (ce), Gee (ge),
Queue-Eff-Eee (qfe),
The other one is eerie (eri)...
My colleague concluded: "I think we are both slightly insane".
[* It is.]
Posted by Ozguru at January 13, 2005 06:00 AM
