Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

[Dale]

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

udev does too.  I'm just used to et0, eth1 etc.  If I renamed them, I'd 
forget the names anyway.  Then I would have to /etc/init.d/<tab tab> 
then slap forehead.  lol

Right now, I only use one nic on each rig.  I got a Linksys router now.  
I used to use my main rig as a router so it had three nics not counting 
the built in which I didn't use and was disabled in the BIOS.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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