Author: dnicholson
Date: 2007-08-08 12:34:59 -0600 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 8299
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml
Log:
Clarify udev persistent-net-rules output
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2007-08-08 18:22:08 UTC (rev 8298)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2007-08-08 18:34:59 UTC (rev 8299)
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
<para>2007-08-08</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[dnicholson] - Clarify the description of the Udev persistent
+ network rules file.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[dnicholson] - Redirected <filename
class="devicefile">/dev/tty</filename> to standard input when
running the Bash testsuite to prevent errors with terminal
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml 2007-08-08 18:22:08 UTC (rev 8298)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter07/network.xml 2007-08-08 18:34:59 UTC (rev 8299)
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@
<screen><userinput>cat
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</userinput></screen>
- <para>Each NIC takes up two lines in the file. The first line is a
- description of the NIC itself, showing its hardware IDs (e.g. its PCI
- vendor and device IDs, if it's a PCI card), along with its driver in
- parentheses, if the driver can be found. This line is a comment; neither
+ <para>The file begins with a comment block followed by two lines for each
+ NIC. The first line for each NIC is a commented description showing its
+ hardware IDs (e.g. its PC vendor and device IDs, if it's a PCI card),
+ along with its driver in parentheses, if the driver can be found. Neither
the hardware ID nor the driver is used to determine which name to give an
interface. The second line is the Udev rule that matches this NIC and
actually assigns it a name.</para>
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