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On Apr 1, 2013 2:10 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 31/03/2013 20:26, Dale wrote: |
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> > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: |
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> >> On 2013-03-31, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Since it's obvious that upsteam has this "my way or the highway" |
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> >>>> mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the |
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> >>>> same behavior... |
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> >>>> |
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> >>> I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev |
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update |
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> >>> was in Feb. so I *guess* not. It seems to be a "udev" thing. That is |
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> >>> why I mentioned eudev to someone else that was having this issue with |
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a |
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> >>> server setup. |
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> >> I'd guess eudev will eventually do the same, although I hope that, it |
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> >> being a separate codebase, makes it easier to adopt some solution like |
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> >> the old rule generator, instead of using udev's approach. |
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> >> The udev upstream may have its issues, but there's actually a point in |
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> >> removing this, the approach there was so far was just a dirty hack. |
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> > Thing is, it works for me. The old udev worked, |
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> It's more accurate to say it worked by accident rather than by design. |
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> (Sort of like how the power utility gets power to your house - if yours |
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> is anything like mine I get power despite their best efforts to not give |
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> me any ...) |
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> Anyway, the old method sucked and it sort of works for you and I because |
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> we don't add anything ourselves that trip it up. But this new method... |
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> geez lads, I just dunno. |
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> How do Windows, Mac and Android deal with this stuff? They don't seem to |
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> have any device naming problems, so what is the magic solution in use on |
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> those platforms? |
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I'm not sure about Macs and Android, but with Windows it all happens based |
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on MAC address. |
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I found about it quite accidentally; I had exported a VM from XenServer and |
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imported it to a different host. By default, XenServer assigns a new, |
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random MAC for imported VMs. Windows saw this and proceeded to initialize a |
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new NIC. When I tried setting the IP settings, it complained that the |
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settings are currently being used by an invisible NIC. So, I shut down the |
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VM, restored the old MAC, and the prior settings reappeared. |
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Rgds, |
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