Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Feature request - Enable "nameif" to associate MAC address with correct interface name.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,

Quoting Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>:

> Regarding udev, I found info at
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#why about how it
> works which mentions some udev tools - udevinfo, udevtest, udevtrigger,
> udevcontrol - which are missing in DL, and might be worth adding.

Those are the old tools, they have been replaced by 'udevadm'.  
Excecute 'udevadm help' for details.

> udevtrigger seems to be the way to reprocess udev rules without
> rebooting. Altering (or deleting) 70-persistent-net.rules + udevtrigger
> + /etc/init.d/network restart should be a way to fix a broken network
> connection after a hardware change. At the moment I think you have to
> save-config and reboot instead of udevtrigger.

We use the the trigger and settle commands in /etc/init.d/boot.

> If this worked, then a new option could be added for the network script,
> say '-redetect' which would stop the network, delete
> 70-persistent-net.rules, then run udevtrigger before starting the
> network again. It should also post an advisory message that the change
> will not persist under DL unless configuration is saved.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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