Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 18/12/2020 à 17:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev says: > In general, when using KDE or GNOME, mdev is not suitable. > but does not explain why. > I surmise that KDE and GNOME have some specific involvement with udev. >     AFAIU, Xorg uses libudev to retrieve inf

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread tito via Dng
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:10:01 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 18/12/2020 à 17:26, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev says: > > In general, when using KDE or GNOME, mdev is not suitable. > > but does not explain why. > > I surmise that KDE and GNOME have some specific i

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread aitor
Hi, On 19/12/20 15:22, tito via Dng wrote: is this a database generated at runtime about the devices of the current machine or just a collection of hardware ids/info? In the latter case couldn't we let the udev/systemd people do the work and use their database? It's the second one. Aitor. _

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-12-18 21:28, tito via Dng wrote: > I love physical connections therefore I prefer NICs over Wifi, so 12 > of them are not so much (a few clients, a server, pos, couple of > printers, Nas, cash register, 2 modems...) No quarrel with the rest of your post, but I would do this with just one

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread tito via Dng
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:40:31 -0800 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-12-18 21:28, tito via Dng wrote: > > > I love physical connections therefore I prefer NICs over Wifi, so 12 > > of them are not so much (a few clients, a server, pos, couple of > > printers, Nas, cash register, 2 modems...) > > N

Re: [DNG] if2mac init.d service for persistent network interface names

2020-12-19 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 19/12/2020 à 17:20, aitor a écrit : > > Hi, > > On 19/12/20 15:22, tito via Dng wrote: >> is this a database generated at runtime about the devices of the >> current machine or just a collection of hardware ids/info? >> In the latter case couldn't we let the udev/systemd people do the >> work an