[Mageia-dev] Order of nics when multiple network interfaces detected.

Fri Feb 24 12:46:07 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 24/02/12 02:17 did gyre and gimble:
+> 
+> In Mageia 1, which nic is assigned eth0 or eth1 etc, is controlled
+> by /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
+> 
+> In beta 1, /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is not being
+> created, although I can't figure out why as
+> /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/connection/ethernet.pm has not been
+> changed.
+> 
+> I've also noticed that dracut doesn't include
+> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules in the initrd,
+> if it does exist.
+
+Why would it be needed in the initrd unless you actually load the
+network modules too (this is possible - see the network module in
+dracut) but it's not enabled by default (except in non-hostonly mode and
+I agree it should probably copy them in that case... I can make this so).
+
+That said, I'd also be tempted to not include the network module even in
+non-hostonly mode for now... perhaps disable the network module when run
+via the mkinitrd wrapper... that would likely solve any issues with it
+being included in upgrades etc.
+
+
+> Is there some new method systemd is supposed to be using
+> to control the order of nic assignments?
+
+Not really no, but perhaps you're now using NetworkManager and it's
+somehow not updating the persistent rules?
+
+Col
+
+
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