Re: [gentoo-server] delay init of firewire

[Christian Bricart]

Francesco Riosa wrote:
> [cannot see my previous email ,resending with other account]
>
> Christian Bricart wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>is there a possible solution to delay hot-/cold-/whatever-plugging after
>>loading autoload-modules (/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6) or at least
>>after some network probing..?
>>
>>right now I have to add "eth1394" to /etc/hotplug/blacklist, as it load
>>before my Ethernet cards ;-)
>>So Firewire becomes eth0, moving old eth0 to eth1 and eth1 to eth2...
>>
>>(Fortunately, i've got a serial console for that server which I'm able to
>>connect to via SSH after the network has been all messed up...)
>>
>>Christian
>>
>
> may I suggest an alternative solution? on my firewalls I rename the eth*
> to a name more meaningful to me:
>
> "/etc/udev/rules.d/60-net.rules"
> KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:50:ff:f6:1f:e6", NAME="lan"
> KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:90:2e:1b:d1:55", NAME="ext"
>
>
> then in "/etc/conf.d/net"
> modules=( "iproute2" )
> config_lan=( "192.168.69.1/24" )
>
>
> the 6 bytes numbers are the mac address of the ethernet cards. This also
> help to have a deterministic name of ethernet card after moving them on
> pci slot, rebuilding kernel etc.

Nifty idea - but not practical in my case as there are some references 
(like vmware, iptables, ..) to eth0 and eth1..

But I'll try to set (using your example):

  "/etc/udev/rules.d/60-net.rules"
  KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:50:ff:f6:1f:e6", NAME="eth0"
  KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:90:2e:1b:d1:55", NAME="eth1"

for the names.. that might do the trick :-)

later...

Christian
>
> thanks for this solution goes to a gentoo dev but sadly I've forgot who .
>
> rgds, Francesco R.
>
>

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