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On Friday 07 Jun 2013 09:06:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 07/06/2013 06:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: |
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> > An ethernet device is sometimes represented by the string "eth0". |
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> > Regarding this string "eth0": |
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> > 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? |
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> > (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*" |
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> For more info, research this list going back about 4 months. The whole |
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> topic was discussed at length. Search for "udev persistent names". A |
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> word of warning - it wasn't pretty at the time and nothing changed just |
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> becuase those mails are now archived :-) |
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Let's hope that the mere mention of that thread does not kick off another |
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rant-storm about udev, systemd, banking bailouts, global warming, ... LOL! |
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More detail on the <aheam!> predictable interface naming scheme can be found |
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here: |
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http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ |
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and some suggestions for upgrading to the latest stable version of udev in |
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Gentoo were published here: |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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