Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: On 16/01/13 09:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: SUBSYSTEM==tty, DRIVERS==pl2303, KERNELS==4-1:1.0, KERNEL==ttyUSB*, SYMLINK=mythser/rca1 I'm not sure if rules are additive - if these symlinks would show up in addition to

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Riosa
2013/1/19 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 09/01/2013 23:13, William Hubbs ha scritto: All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems, because it will require migration on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base profile to

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: Since for servers predictable names are

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 17/01/13 04:49, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if serial ports were deterministically

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/13 09:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: SUBSYSTEM==tty, DRIVERS==pl2303, KERNELS==4-1:1.0, KERNEL==ttyUSB*, SYMLINK=mythser/rca1 I'm not sure if rules are additive - if these symlinks would show up in addition to whatever other ones are

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Stuge
Tobias Klausmann wrote: It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. Only as long as that system hasn't seen *another* NIC first, if it has persistent interface name

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Peter Stuge wrote: Tobias Klausmann wrote: It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. Only as long as that system hasn't seen

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Peter Stuge wrote: Tobias Klausmann wrote: It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I _know_ that there will

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if serial ports were deterministically labeled. Does /dev/serial/* solve the problem? I don't see this directory at all on my system.

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously reconsider how they are naming their devices, as it will not work if you only rely on the kernel. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously reconsider how they are naming

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 16/01/2013 17:25, Mike Gilbert ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann klaus...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and you have more than one network device in your system,

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Weber
On 01/16/2013 05:25 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. ++ I would actually like to see iproute2 added to the system set. ++ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if serial ports were deterministically labeled. Does /dev/serial/*

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I respect both sides of the discussion, because: a) I once set up an old P3-700 with 5+1 eth cards in 6 different networks as (bridging)router and truly benefited from the ability to change a broken NIC - which happened quite often due

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, This can have serious security implications [1] For whom? The often cited end user not running any network service, not even sshd? Without firewalls, routing or dhcp_d_? Some avahi-discovery woodoo stuff unaware of network topology at all?

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/01/13 04:16 AM, Michael Weber wrote: Hi, This can have serious security implications [1] For whom? I think the idea there is that a user expects eth0 and eth1 to stay the same, writes iptables rules on a per-interface basis to control

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/01/13 03:42 AM, Michael Weber wrote: e) Some distro/driver constellations (archlinux?) tend to name their wireless lan eth*. [...] e) never happened to me. It has for me, but not for a *LONG* time -- iirc it was prior to 2.6.16 and I

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:58:59AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 15/01/13 04:16 AM, Michael Weber wrote: Hi, This can have serious security implications [1] For whom? I think the idea there is that a user expects eth0 and eth1 to stay the same, writes iptables rules on a

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote: And it's not udev that could rename the interface (hint, it wouldn't), it's the kernel, it _never_ guarantees the same interface name every time you boot. You might just be getting lucky, but really, PCI busses can be

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if serial ports were deterministically labeled. Does /dev/serial/* solve the problem? //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:33:42PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell dlcampb...@gmx.com wrote: So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from systemd, and this

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/01/13 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a news item when 197 (or greater) goes stable informing people that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Christopher Head wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:13:21 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* wlan* etc names. I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. The page

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell dlcampb...@gmx.com wrote: So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism. Will eudev be pursuing this as well? Keep in

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/09/2013 10:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell dlcampb...@gmx.com wrote: So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism.