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Hi! |
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: |
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> So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and |
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> you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously |
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> reconsider how they are naming their devices, as it will not work if you |
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> only rely on the kernel. |
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> You might have gotten "lucky" for the past 5 years, but you never know |
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> what could happen if you reboot today. Seriously, I've seen it happen |
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> all the time. |
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It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine |
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with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I |
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_know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. |
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OTOH, maybe it's a good idea to make admins do "ip link sh" and |
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"ip addr sh" every time they examine a new computer -- it goes a |
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long way to root out wrong assumptions in that field. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias |
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PS: Do not use ifconfig. Ever. Except if there's no iproute. And |
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then you should only use ifconfig to enable downloading of |
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iproute :) |
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