Re: What happened to network devices?'

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:06:49AM -0500, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de was heard to say: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before, so I didn't check if such a file existed. A network

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before, so I didn't check if such a file existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be represented under /dev. Not

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-04 Thread lee
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:09:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before, so I didn't check if such a file existed. A network

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before, so I didn't check if such a file existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be represented under /dev. Not so, at

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:22:29PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: James Youngman wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090603155614.gv1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: It always turned eth0 into eth1 for me, extremely annoying. This is a result of an attempt to make interface names persistent by tying them to MAC addresses. It falls on its face often. There really needs to be some sort of

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-02 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
James Youngman wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0.

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090601003859.gq1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:12:09PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the raw kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname. Usually, I've only done this for lo,

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-31 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:12:09PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before. In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the raw kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname.

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only been using it as my main OS

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090530163014.gh1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 00:35:38, lee wrote: Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR: /dev/eth0: No such device note: exiting Hhhm, I never needed to put

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:35:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,29.May.09, 00:35:38, lee wrote: Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only been using it as my main OS since the end of 2004. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-.

What happened to network devices?

2009-05-28 Thread lee
Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR: /dev/eth0: No such device note: exiting cat:~# find / -name eth0 /proc/irq/20/eth0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0