Re: udev and net device - question

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:22:48PM +0100, Mathieu Segaud wrote:
> Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl> writes:
> 
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I'm very happy with ability to replace not reliable nameif with udev.
> > After few greps over udev-023 source I'm little confused.
> > Do I have to identify my network cards with PCI ID? I would strongly
> > prefer MAC address instead. It's available in sysfs:
> >
> >  cat /sys/class/net/ep0/address             
> > 00:07:e9:15:0e:cb
> >
> >  Is it possible with current udev?   
> 
> yep,
> 
> use SYSFS{address}="xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" as the match part of the rule
> and it will work, that's it :)
> 
> by the way, thanks to all udev developers and the guy that never
> sleeps, who made this tiny little binary; I use it in initrd to boot
> my dm-crypt'ed root, to manage all /dev at real boot and after, and to 
> set my 3 ethernet cards to "external", "private" and "dmz" names.
> Seems like 2.6 changed many things in Linux world, all that with
> stability ;)

Very very nice to hear from someone using it successfully. I'm happy
to hear, that udev finds its place on the boxes out there, now.

thanks for the feedback,
Kay


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