Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Jan 6, 2012 8:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com
<mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.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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