Re: forcedeth ?

Sasa Ostrouska
2007-07-30T23:10:29Z

On 7/31/07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 00:19 +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On 7/31/07, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> On 7/31/07, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > >>> Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> > >>>> On 7/30/07, Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>> On 7/30/07, Sasa Ostrouska <casaxa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>> Hi people,
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I'm using this on a x86-64 amd machine. During boot of the last
> > >>>>>> 2.6.22.1 kernel I get this error:
> > >>>>> Somewhat unrelated, but I had a similar forcedeth problem, I took the
> > >>>>> latest git forcedeth.c and put it into 2.6.22.1 and it worked for me.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Good luck!
> > >>>>> --
> > >>>>> avuton
> > >>>> Ok, maybe I can try that. In any case I noticed another strange thing.
> > >>>> I have 2 nics in that machine.
> > >>>> One is a nvidia MPC61 using the forcedeth.c the other one is a Realtec
> > >>>> RTL8029 using the
> > >>>> ne2k_pci.
> > >>>> Now, whenever I compile them both as modules each reboot the cards get
> > >>>> inversed eth assignement. Suppose first boot, the forcedeth is eth0 ,
> > >>>> the next boot it is eth1 , this is very anoying as one cant make only
> > >>>> one boot, probably this is someway related to the bios.
> > >>>> Now I configured them one in the kernel and the other as a module so
> > >>>> they get each time assigned the same name. But when powerloss happens
> > >>>> (unplug the cable) the next boot they do not work. I see them assigned
> > >>>> the correct name, ifconfig shows the IP's but ping results in a
> > >>>> destination unreachable.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Any ideas ?
> > >>> Udev rules ?
> > >>>
> > >> Gabriel, hmm, shouldnt udev be able to autoconfigure that ? But I need
> > >> to check that, thx for the tip.
> > >
> > > Udev does that already, it automatically creates rules and assigns
> > > persistent names to newly discovered network hardware. The names will
> > > be stable across reboots, regardless of module loading order or
> > > anything else. But sure, that's only on distros who take these issues
> > > serious. :)
> >
> > Yes but the rules are based on the MAC address no ?
>
> The automatic rule creator, uses MAC addresses by default, yes. There
> have been extensions for S/390 support recently, to create other sorts
> of matching rules.
>
> The rules that rename the interface, are not limited in any way, and can
> match on any property of the device, they are just not created
> automatically today, but can be specified manually.
>
> Maybe the network susbsytem should let us know in the event environment,
> that a random MAC was created, so we can automatically create rules that
> uses the path to the hardware as a match instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Kay
>
And why not just use the PCI ID instead of the MAC address ?

Rgds
Sasa