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On 26/09/2014 02:23, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:03:02PM +0000, James wrote |
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>> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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>>>> Any other caveats (short term) on switching udev to eudev? |
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>>> in fact, from what I last checked, eudev's networking is at same level |
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>>> with udev-208, from time before the .link support at all |
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>> ah, back when ethernet defaulted to eth0 not "enp5s0" ? |
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> I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly |
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> annoying is this doublespeak about calling it "predictable". Before the |
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> change, it was predicatbly "eth0". Now, it's different on every |
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> different model. |
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It's not doublespeak, the interfaces are named exactly according to |
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where they are on the PCI bus. If you had two interfaces, they show up |
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to the kernel in random order by time and sometimes eth0/eth1 are nto |
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the same they were before the reboot. |
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You are just looking at this from the wrong point of view. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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