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On 04/07/13 04:06, Stroller wrote: |
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>On 6 April 2013, at 16:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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>>> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and |
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>>> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to |
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>>> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!! |
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>> No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. udev-200 |
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>> now renames eth0, eth1, .... to something else, dependent upon |
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>> complicated rules. In my case eth0 has become p6p1, though many people |
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>> seem to have got longer names. |
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>> Yes, it's a pain in the backside. |
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>The irony of it is that AIUI these changes were occasioned because the kernel devs refused to make changes which might renumber the network ports for a very small number of users (who were running, at the time, the very latest generation of Dell or HP servers, less than 6 months old). |
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>I believe Linus himself was involved and he said "no, no, no! we cannot make changes which will break things!" |
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>Stroller. |
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Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something specific to Gentoo? |
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Joseph |