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Il 16/01/2013 17:25, Mike Gilbert ha scritto: |
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Hi! |
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>> |
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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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> I would actually like to see iproute2 added to the system set. |
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> |
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additionally (or indipendently) I would like to see it in bin instead of |
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sbin |
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