From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:00:08 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <20091012030008.GA8436@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20091009140000.GA18765@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091009210909.GA9836@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091009194401.036da080@nehalam> <20091010044056.GA5350@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091010052308.GA12458@kroah.com> <7e84ed60910111410g52ffd52bjec62576570d4b460@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e84ed60910111410g52ffd52bjec62576570d4b460@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rob Townley Cc: Matt Domsch , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Narendra_K@dell.com, jordan_hargrave@dell.com On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:10:03PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: > So when an add-in PCI NIC has a lower MAC than the motherboard NICs, > the add-in cards will come before the motherboard NICs. i don't like it. Huh? Have you used the MAC persistant rules? If you add a new card, what does it pick for it? > But please whatever is done, make sure ping and tracert still works when > telling it to use a ethX source interface: > > eth0 = 4.3.2.8, the default gateway is thru eth1. > ping -I eth0 208.67.222.222 FAILS > ping -I 4.3.2.8 208.67.222.222 WORKS > tracert -i eth0 -I 208.67.222.222 FAILS > tracert -s 4.3.2.8 -I 208.67.222.222 WORKS > tracert -i eth0 208.67.222.222 FAILS > tracert -s 4.3.2.8 208.67.222.222 WORKS Again, is what we currently have broken? I am confused as to what this is referring to. greg k-h