Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> > So now that only one ethernet shows up, how do I prevent
>> > udev from renaming eth0 to eth3?
>
>> Probably remove any net-persistent rules that are hanging around. That
>> should free up udev to do more of what you suspect.
>
> Yep,
> I did this to see if udev would build the new rules..
>
>> mark <at> c2stable ~ $ ls -al /etc/udev/rules.d/
>> total 24
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan  1 14:40 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 26 17:33 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Nov 26 17:31 .keep_sys-fs_udev-0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79 Sep 26 06:19 51-android.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  166 Nov  3  2011 60-ipod.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1196 May  5  2012 70-persistent-cd.rules
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  627 Nov 26 17:33 70-persistent-net.rules
>
> 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?

I would move on. The idea is that everything "just works".

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México