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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 |
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> enumerates them and no other way. It's a firing offense to dick with |
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> them and dream up useless "descriptive names". Mind you, these for the |
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> most part are big iron with several 1000 interfaces each and 100+ |
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> support personnel working on them. But even the on-site routers and |
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> firewalls at customer premises have the same rule. I assume we are |
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> talking about kit that routes properly (whether a Unix or something |
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> else is not relevant) and not some joke system. As for NICs that do |
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> not come up at boot time in a consistent order, if any piece of |
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> hardware in our DC did that it would be sent right back to the vendor |
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> labeled as a piece of shit with a demand for a refund. FFS, if my boss |
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> 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 |
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> dodgy. There is ZERO excuse for a system that cannot deterministically |
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> enumerate 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 |
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eth2. That rig now has two nics. The defective nic was removed. It |
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has a new 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 |
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we don't mess with what is working, except for Fedora devs. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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