Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

[Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>]

* james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> [130102 16:02]:
[..]
> 
> Well is all works automatically, but udev did not create the
> files I thought it would upon reboot:
> 
> 
> rules.d # ls -alg
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root  192 Jan  2 14:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root  152 Dec  9 23:26 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1896 Sep 30 08:13 70-persistent-cd.rules
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 2652 Aug 20  2010 70-persistent-cd.rules.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  948 Dec  3 03:52 70-persistent-net.rules.31dec2012.old
> 
> After deleting the 70-persistent-net.rule file
> 
> udev does not re-create it. All is now fine with rc-status
> only showing net.eth0 which is set up how I like it
> per /etc/conf.d/net. All services are fine
> 
> 
> Move on, or hand edit the '70-persistent-net.rules' file?
> 
> TIA,
> James

I don't know what version of udev you're running (sorry if I missed it,)
but the udev-186 elog says:

        "Upstream has removed the persistent-net and persistent-cd rules
         generator. If you need persistent names for these devices,
         place udev rules for them in /etc/udev/rules.d."

That doesn't explain why you got the 70-persistent-cd.rules re-created
and not 70-persistent-net.rules, but maybe one of the udev releases I
didn't install and that you're running just stopped recreating the
70-persistent-net.rules file but still re-created the
70-persistent-cd.rules file?

I went from udev-182-r3 to udev-186 it looks like.

Personally if it works without the 70-persistent-net.rules file and you
don't plug and unplug Ethernet interfaces (like with USB dongles) then I
wouldn't create one myself.

Regards,

Todd