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On Jan 6, 2012 8:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I see that as a liability not a feature. Our routers have very clear |
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naming conventions for interfaces and they are exactly how Cisco enumerates |
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them and no other way. It's a firing offense to dick with them and dream up |
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useless "descriptive names". Mind you, these for the most part are big iron |
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with several 1000 interfaces each and 100+ support personnel working on |
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them. But even the on-site routers and firewalls at customer premises have |
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the same rule. I assume we are talking about kit that routes properly |
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(whether a Unix or something else is not relevant) and not some joke |
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system. As for NICs that do not come up at boot time in a consistent order, |
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if any piece of hardware in our DC did that it would be sent right back to |
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the vendor labeled as a piece of shit with a demand for a refund. FFS, if |
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my boss shells out 3 months wages for some iron and it can't even get |
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something that basic correct, I start to wonder what else might be dodgy. |
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There is ZERO excuse for a system that cannot deterministically enumerate |
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it's fixed devices at boot time. |
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> I have a couple desktop rigs. I had a card that would sometimes not do |
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right and change the order of my cards numbering. Since it was earlier |
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than the card that hooked to my modem, it would mess up my connection to |
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the internet. The card was eth0 and I had internet coming through on eth2. |
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That rig now has two nics. The defective nic was removed. It has a new |
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address called /dev/dump. |
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> It may be a desktop rig but I like them being recognized the same each |
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time I reboot. Although, I forgot about being able to give them names. < |
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scratches chin > Nah, I'll leave well enough alone. It's working and we |
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don't mess with what is working, except for Fedora devs. lol |
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mdev is capable of renaming devices, you know ;-) |
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https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/ZeptoOS/trunk/BGP/packages/busybox/src/docs/mdev.txt |
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Rgds, |
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