From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FA61381F3 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:48:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F334E0A8B; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f169.google.com (mail-ea0-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B427E0A7E for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f169.google.com with SMTP id h15so3654436eak.0 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:48:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=YAXfn+nYJvqMwraroXsI21V4fEHuYOOU9aaqwpzfULg=; b=tH2PNDng3tnYavUvDFofIfZlTlQWpvrp2DG6mSl7E3RjG7fDLJypwolFzNxZIpfJ7u QQR0J+xrc2nWD6iBohBmp/Lmj7qq04LkwNRMOJjcdECVcm1QopBUB6+e/N7mxARlJMjo QxqRlLctMYVs9bvRuL8kRDFM0CHEqIOtGrSLYeL73mjqBO9m7sx7Gk50z8WIrQJ0m9iP d0tjJxcFKZmBK23/GlIJ7EoYSuj0yaG/3fDdNC1pS0g3BLZLSv8KV9IeuTGYvF1rWcSE vT7qJrRVgPo3xL7Eo+X7x4yy0sEJPcePX2mYrwuW2sgNL8u7eSgyouaTk/BY0FIZhyYv hsig== X-Received: by 10.15.44.10 with SMTP id y10mr39186078eev.5.1370612888366; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y2sm111887932eeu.2.2013.06.07.06.48.06 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:48:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Without udev, who/what names ethernet devices? Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:47:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.8.13-gentoo; KDE/4.10.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <51B19497.9080108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51B19497.9080108@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart152294862.MAi9gUJgMq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201306071447.50346.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5c6a65f8-1e15-44a5-9fba-585e3e946ef4 X-Archives-Hash: 45dfa6c9360071e5eb79616a48b7938b --nextPart152294862.MAi9gUJgMq Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 07 Jun 2013 09:06:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/06/2013 06:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > An ethernet device is sometimes represented by the string "eth0". > > Regarding this string "eth0": > >=20 > > 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? > > (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*" [snip...] > For more info, research this list going back about 4 months. The whole > topic was discussed at length. Search for "udev persistent names". A > word of warning - it wasn't pretty at the time and nothing changed just > becuase those mails are now archived :-) Let's hope that the mere mention of that thread does not kick off another=20 rant-storm about udev, systemd, banking bailouts, global warming, ... LOL! More detail on the predictable interface naming scheme can be foun= d=20 here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfac= eNames/ and some suggestions for upgrading to the latest stable version of udev in= =20 Gentoo were published here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart152294862.MAi9gUJgMq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJRseSGAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeN/gH/3Ou8zHzqMwE0TQCvMCPjpn8 FIMwBIrFz5NjDqDRwvkNRlUHOdmDSsxV0ZX9W6dfyDQwh9+uQzecNtqXM6kOYEOO W7MmjZ+liBhNriWt6v5hFOEcooqfPsSwDULEe6hqWDff3F9NAB71HI3wfGiFA3Le dxq6DljpWKmiciIdYfsKe3x8R4bYGNdrHtlXKGzQ2bCJkC3OVUkZJZdg6V6FP6mg H54ioHXCykrjSFaOqormSu979xXGftdr/YVLxBk9DaVBnLSM7Rj3+/H6o9LAAUv7 WUmPYNwEANWrmFHiMTEDD5b8a6F41olaYlcN4UN8GV2XOvIT52xSLZuMdQn+zFo= =s/KX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart152294862.MAi9gUJgMq--