Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:19:45 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest) |
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>> > Users like to be able to get a list of posible targets for a single protocol. >> > Nobody would ever think about trying to prevent people from getting a unified >> > view on the list possible hosts that talk TCP/IP. >> >> How do you perform -scanbus for TCP/IP? :-) > >There are various programs that do that for you. >You could e.g. send a ping to the broadcast address in order to find hosts >that are on the local network.
ping is ICMP/IP, therefore is not relevant to the question ;) `nmap -sT` would probably do more TCP.
>If you understand this, why then insists other people in using names like >/dev/hd*?
It's shorter than /dev/c0t0d0s0? Well, I think it's because people think in terms of connectors (my drive is IDE therefore it must be hdc) rather than protocol (my drive does ATAPI therefore it must be /dev/scsi/c0t0d0s0).
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