Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:24:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: devfs / eth micro-problems |
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Hello Jesse , Is the perl script you have developed proprietry ? Or would you be willing to place it under GPL ? I find myself interested in it for the same reason as you are using it . Tia, JimL
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote: > --------- Received message begins Here --------- > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:02:39 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > > (ii) I noticed recently one some machine that the two > > > ethernet cards had interchanged names. And indeed, > > > if I am not mistaken the 2.4.0-test2 change to eth_setup > > > causes the familiar ether=0,0,eth1 boot parameter to > > > assign the eth1 name to the first detected card. > > > I am inclined to consider this a buglet - > > > it is a bit inconvenient if one has to test kernel version > > > in the boot scripts. > > > I'd tend to agree. Can you say a bit more about the change to > > > eth_setup (not being familiar with that section of code). > > How about configuring IP address based on the MAC address of the card > > rather than what the kernel happens to name it? > Thats easy enough to do now - I have a perl script that parses an > ifconfig, extracts the MAC address and then sets the IP that I have > associated with it. It can even change the name of the host, as well > as configure other things depending on the identity of the MAC > address. > This lets me use one backup system disk that can reconfigure itself to the > host -- just plug it in and boot. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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