If_ prefix

[Unee0x]

Will someone please explain why greens uses an if_ prefix for some of its network drivers, such as: if_urtwn, if_re etc....

 

[SirDice]

Greens? Who or what is greens?

 

[Unee0x]

Greens? Who or what is greens?

Wow!
Should've known something was wrong when I didn't hear back from this great community.
[G g]reens was supposed to be FreeBSD...
Again, I'd like the know the reason for the "if"prefix Designated to some of the network drivers in FreeBSD.
Thanks in advance.

 

[ShelLuser]

Most likely to indicate that those are (network) interface drivers. if_tun being explained in the tun(4) manualpage; a tunnel network interface.

 

[SirDice]

Most likely to indicate that those are (network) interface drivers.

It's also to remove any ambiguity between, for example, re() (manpage about regular expressions) and if_re() (the Realtek network interface).