Realtek network driver

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Aleksandr Litvinov
<free.dvig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Let's ask. Why in cvsweb existing  a two drivers for network interface
> realtek: rl & re? They can be united? What objective reasons prevent
> to make?

The drivers are for different card/chipset models. Please see

     man if_rl
     man if_re

Summary:

     rl -- RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet device driver
     re -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E PCI/PCIe Ethernet
adapter driver

-- 
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean