[gentoo-user] OT: BATMAN vs frr/ospf

2021-12-01 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all, has anyone had experience using the batman-adv protocol and can comment on its use instead of ospf? The recommended "drop in" replacement for quagga/ospf based routing with the frr/ospf package has proven to be a less than stellar replacement in my case

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 8:05 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:15 PM Dale wrote: > > > > > > root@fireball / # ls -al /etc/udev/rules.d/ > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1903 Apr 4 2012 70-persistent-cd.rules > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814 Jan 1 2008 70-persistent-net.rules > >

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:15 PM Dale wrote: > > > root@fireball / # ls -al /etc/udev/rules.d/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1903 Apr 4 2012 70-persistent-cd.rules > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 814 Jan 1 2008 70-persistent-net.rules > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Mar 22 2015 80-net-name-slot.rules > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread John Covici
On Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:15:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:27:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >> What made this affect me, I think the method is different to disable it > >> in udev than it is in eudev. > > net.ifnames=0 works on both udev and eudev, I've had

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:27:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> What made this affect me, I think the method is different to disable it >> in udev than it is in eudev. > net.ifnames=0 works on both udev and eudev, I've had it in my GRUB config > for years and it needed no changes when

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:27:32 -0600, Dale wrote: > What made this affect me, I think the method is different to disable it > in udev than it is in eudev. net.ifnames=0 works on both udev and eudev, I've had it in my GRUB config for years and it needed no changes when switching from eudev to udev.

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Dale
Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:44:48 CET Arve Barsnes wrote: >> I have been running eudev for as long as it has existed, and have also >> been using the predictable interface names more or less since they >> were introduced. The eudev ebuild also shows a message about this

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 20:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > I suspect they would have had similar issues with other distros, but > that would have been years ago when udev made the change and eudev > decided not to merge it. That dates to around the time eudev started. I have been running eudev for as

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 14:28 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > indeed being able to change this stuff is part of the appeal of > Gentoo.  Besides, Gentoo users probably would want to be aware of it > anyway... Amen. I knew what I was signing up for. Just hoping to save someone else an unexpected trip

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:17 PM Jigme Datse wrote: > > I honestly was afraid of this with running some updates lately. > Like... Not this specifically, but because someone was commenting > about eudev->udev causing problems... And then the problems I was > having a hard time with some updates on

Re: [gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Jigme Datse
On Wed, 01 Dec 2021 12:49:59 -0500 "Matt Connell (Gmail)" wrote: > If you have a Gentoo machine running on Linode, take care to note that > the eudev => udev changeover requires some manual intervention before > the next reboot. > > You will need to DISABLE the network autoconfiguration option

[gentoo-user] eudev/udev changeover: a warning to Linode customers

2021-12-01 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
If you have a Gentoo machine running on Linode, take care to note that the eudev => udev changeover requires some manual intervention before the next reboot. You will need to DISABLE the network autoconfiguration option for the VM, and edit /etc/conf.d/net to specify the new, 'predictable'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching from eudev to udev, disaster.

2021-12-01 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/1/21 10:02 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: IIRC, there are situations where using udev rules to rename them "ethN" based on MAC addresses will fail because that can conflict with the low-level kernel names. Or something like that. I don't think I ever ran into a problem re-using the original

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching from eudev to udev, disaster.

2021-12-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor wrote: > I guess I never really gave the renaming much thought because I > almost always complied drivers into the kernel, which meant that > they had a consistent ~> predictable enumeration and naming order. I think that's generally true on most motherboards for PCI

[gentoo-user] Re: Switching from eudev to udev, disaster.

2021-12-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor wrote: > Besides, it's a LOT easier to /just/ `tcpdump -nni eth0` when logging > into a machine than it is to have to figure out the interface name first. Yep. I always add udev rules to rename the boards net0, net1, etc. based don the MAC addresses. > That being