From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: locally-administered MAC addresses create stupid rules
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:45:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fhr4de$lfb$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
Hello,
the default persistent network rules generator in udev-117 creates this stupid
rule for a network card with a locally-administered MAC address:
SUBSYSTEM="net", ACTION="add", ATTR{type}="1", NAME="eth0"
(to reproduce: kvm -net nic,macaddr#:45:67:89:ab:cd -hda hda.dsk)
This generated rule is stupid, because it matches every ethernet card. The logic
that strips out locally-administered MAC addresses from the match should be
revised, but I don't know how to do it properly. If we just remove the generated
rule, we'll possibly end up with a random name (e.g., eth0) for this network
card and a eth0_rename name for a conflicting interface that should really be
eth0 according to the other rules.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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next reply other threads:[~2007-11-19 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-19 4:45 Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2007-11-19 11:06 ` locally-administered MAC addresses create stupid rules Kay Sievers
2007-11-19 11:31 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-11-19 11:55 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-19 12:04 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-11-19 12:18 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-19 12:53 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
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