Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2007 22:42:17 Alex Hudson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 20:43 +0100, John Southern wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, Debian appears to be in a world of its own and can
>>> actually flip NIC assignment everytime you reboot.
>> Actually, that's modern Linux I'm afraid. NIC allocations, HD device
>> allocations, etc. are all variable - the name itself isn't static.
> 
> Does udev come into this as well? It does rather seem that we're 
> progressively losing control of our own systems.
> 
I'm not sure about either udev at all nor debian flipping it's NIC 
assignments all over the place.  I think not many would tolerate such 
behaviour from a distro that has, after all, been a favourite choice for 
servers for some time. One simply has to be sure the system is going to 
come up as required and configured.  I don't see how, of one uses static 
IP and route allocation, with no DHCP, how anything more of a NiC can be 
variable.

It would be an exercise to seek to understand Debian's approach to 
raising the network components of a multi-Nic'd box.  The source code is 
out there after all.  At the moment I am 'blaming' Network Manager for 
the situation.  After removing that, the system comes up as I have 
configured it - and not as some unknown other attempts to tell me I 
should have it.

Regards
L.




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