[Voyage-linux] Re: UDEV Rules, hardware Mac addresses

[Gustin Johnson]

My concern was that something changed upstream, I just have not had
the time to look in to this.  For production we are still a couple of
versions behind (we still have 0.5.2 variants deployed).

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:21 AM, John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gustin....
>
> do you have any ideas how to solve this. I think the easiest thing would be
> to get UDEV back to its original configuration (when you had all the rules
> and was able to correct the nameing issue). But alas, I am not THAT
> talented.
>
> Thoughts, Ideas?
>
> I'll also post this on Experts-Exchange and see what I and pull up there.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:59
> Subject: Re: UDEV Rules, hardware Mac addresses
> To: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>
> Cc: Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca>, voyage linux Mailing List
> <voyage-linux at voyage.hk>, Tim Thayne <timthayne at hotmail.com>
>
>
> What is the status on this issue?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:59, Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I noticed the same behavior.  Moving or cloning the CF and putting it
>> into a different SBC yields incremented interface names (eg eth1
>> instead of eth0).  I could find no mention on the CF card in any file
>> on the file system.
>>
>> This does not seem to happen with the previous release which has the
>> expected rules in the expected places (/etc/udev/rules.d and
>> /lib/udev/rules.d).  It was trivial to "reset" an image by removing
>> the lines containing the previous MAC address.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
>> <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > On 8/30/2011 3:04 PM, John Schultz wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What exactly does that have to do with the hardware addresses of the
>> >> physical adapters?
>> >
>> > If you have rebuilt the initrd and the initrd contains some rules that
>> > persist the MAC addresses and interface names, then probably explained
>> > your
>> > problem.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 00:59, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
>> >> <punkytse at punknix.com
>> >> <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>    Hi John,
>> >>
>> >>    Then, what udev rules store inside the initrd?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Kim-man "Punky" Tse
>> >
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