Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2003 10:33:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order |
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Hello Ray & All , While that RedHat/Debian/... have figured these out is really nice . NOT one of those methods appears to be available for hand built distros . Ie: there does not appear to be a standardised(tm) method to approach this difficulty through out all drivers (not just ethernet) .
Could someone please point me to NON RedHat/Debian/... centric tool to determine the proper ethernet for now ?
Modules are not an option for me here . Imo: If this can be done with modules it should well be possible for staticly built drivers as well . Tia , JimL
On Thu, 8 May 2003, Ray Lee wrote: > Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > My belief is that configuration scripts should be specified in > > term of MAC address (or subset) and not in term of device name. Just > > like the Pcmcia scripts are doing it. > Debian already supports this, integrated into the normal scheme for > dealing with interfaces. Anyone running Debian can take a look at > /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples directory, the network-interfaces.gz > file contains sample /etc/network/interfaces stanzas for configuring > your interfaces via MAC address: > auto eth0 eth1 > mapping eth0 eth1 > script /path/to/get-mac-addr.sh > map 11:22:33:44:55:66 lan > map AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF internet > iface lan inet static > address 192.168.42.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > pre-up /usr/local/sbin/enable-masq $IFACE > iface internet inet dhcp > pre-up /usr/local/sbin/firewall $IFACE > You can even do something like: > iface wireless inet dhcp > wireless_key 12345678901234567890123456 > A sample get-mac-address.sh is in the same directory, though it has a > typo (missing a close paren -- I need to report that...). This same > scheme works for pinging some well-known host to determine where you > are, or using ARPs, or whatever. I use it on my laptop with PCMCIA > cards, works great. > Ray -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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