Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 16/01/13 09:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="4-1:1.0", >> KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca1" >> >> I'm not sure if rules are additive - if these symlinks would show >> up in addition to

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread Francesco Riosa
2013/1/19 William Hubbs > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:07:42AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 09:54 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Since for servers predictable n

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:33:13AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > > Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop > > (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/01/13 07:24 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop > (which usually have only one ethernet that never change) Is it > possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base > profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-18 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 09/01/2013 23:13, William Hubbs ha scritto: All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems, because it will require migration on the par

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > > It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine > > > with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I > > > _know_ tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Peter Stuge wrote: > Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine > > with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I > > _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. > > Only as long as that system hasn't seen

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Peter Stuge
Tobias Klausmann wrote: > It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine > with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I > _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. Only as long as that system hasn't seen *another* NIC first, if it has persistent interface name

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/13 09:55 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="4-1:1.0", > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca1" > > I'm not sure if rules are additive - if these symlinks would show > up in addition to whatever othe

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-17 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 17/01/13 04:49, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if serial ports were deterministically labeled. Does /de

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy >> >> if serial ports were deter

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 06:36:59AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy > >> if serial ports were deterministically labeled. > > > > Does /dev/serial/* solve

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Weber
On 01/16/2013 05:25 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine >> with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I >> _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. ++ > I would actually like to see iproute2 added to the system set. ++ --

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 16/01/2013 17:25, Mike Gilbert ha scritto: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously recon

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and >> you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously >> reconsider how they are naming their devi

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: > So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and > you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously > reconsider how they are naming their devices, as it will not work if you > only rely on the kernel. > > Yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy >> if serial ports were deterministically labeled. > > Does /dev/serial/* solve the problem? I don't see this directory at all on my system. Rich

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy > if serial ports were deterministically labeled. Does /dev/serial/* solve the problem? //Peter

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Greg KH wrote: > And it's not udev that could rename the interface (hint, it wouldn't), > it's the kernel, it _never_ guarantees the same interface "name" every > time you boot. You might just be getting lucky, but really, PCI busses > can be enumerated in differe

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:58:59AM -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 15/01/13 04:16 AM, Michael Weber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "This can have serious security implications" [1] > > > > For whom? > > I think the idea there is that a user expects eth0 and eth1 to stay > the same, writes iptables r

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/01/13 03:42 AM, Michael Weber wrote: > > e) Some distro/driver constellations (archlinux?) tend to name > their wireless lan eth*. [...] e) never happened to me. It has for me, but not for a *LONG* time -- iirc it was prior to 2.6.16 and I th

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/01/13 04:16 AM, Michael Weber wrote: > Hi, > > "This can have serious security implications" [1] > > For whom? I think the idea there is that a user expects eth0 and eth1 to stay the same, writes iptables rules on a per-interface basis to co

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, "This can have serious security implications" [1] For whom? The often cited end user not running any network service, not even sshd? Without firewalls, routing or dhcp_d_? Some avahi-discovery woodoo stuff unaware of network topology at all? M

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-15 Thread Michael Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I respect both sides of the discussion, because: a) I once set up an old P3-700 with 5+1 eth cards in 6 different networks as (bridging)router and truly benefited from the ability to change a broken NIC - which happened quite often due scra

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/01/13 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> [1] >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames > >> > > So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no > complaints from me. I (and others)

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 11:33:42PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no > > complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from > > systemd, and this smells of a syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/09/2013 10:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no >> complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from >> systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism. Will eudev be

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > So long as users retain the choice of keeping eth* or wlan*, no > complaints from me. I (and others) came to Gentoo to get away from > systemd, and this smells of a systemd-ism. Will eudev be pursuing this > as well? Keep in mind that this

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/09/2013 04:13 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. > > This new version implements a new feature called predictable > network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for > li

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:13:21 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > There is a way for users to opt out if we default this to on, but I > think the new naming scheme has advantages over the traditional eth* > wlan* etc names. I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. The page mentions how it lets yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Christopher Head wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames > > This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a news > item when

Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:13:10 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames This seems like a good thing for some systems. Will there be a news item when 197 (or greater) goes stable informing people that the option is available and

[gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names

2013-01-09 Thread William Hubbs
All, as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree. This new version implements a new feature called predictable network interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems, because it will require migration on the part of the user. When you upgrade to this new vers