... 2003, 17:00:47 The Complete FreeBSD ( /tools/tmac.Mn), page 299 299 Chapter 17: Configuring the local network Specify the fully qualified local host name When you tab to the Domain: field, the domain ... via the an Ethernet interface, but this is relatively slow: the data would have to go through the network stack Instead, there is a special interface for communicating with other processes in the ... also emphasizes the difference between the output of ifconfig and the routing table ifconfig shows the address of the interface, the address needed to reach our system For the Ethernet interface,...