On 04/26/2011 07:35 PM, James Laska wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:35 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
Hi,
So it's been a few days now with F15 beta, with the sleek Gnome3 installed.(Machine - DELL Precision T5400). Apart from a few glitches, this looks good.
Now, I'm aware of the 'Consistent-Network-Device-Naming' feature.
Question:
- In the stock F15 install, I don't see an 'ifcfg-em1' file in network-scripts directory.
Is that intentional?
What do you see there?
I just see the loopback stuff - 'ifcfg-lo' . No other ifcfg-*
Using NetworkManager (nm-connection-editor), did
you configure networking to start/connect automatically?
I didn't configure anything explicitly. I just used the stock F15 beta. So that means, yes NM was in play.
+ I use plenty of Virtualization with bridging. So do I have to manually createifcfg-em1 (without HWADDR entry -- I read this in the release-note that all HWADDR entries shall be removed from ifcfg-*) ?
To make use of bridged networking for virtualization, it is still expected that you create the ifcfg-* files by hand.
yep, that's what I do/did (like I noted at the end in the previous mail) I believe HWADDR
only comes into play for upgraded systems, or if you want to use an unusual device name. If an upgraded system already has HWADDR present (and possible also matching udev rules), the old device name will be used. Otherwise, you get the new naming scheme.
yes, read about this.
Thanks James.
/kashyap
Here is some info which confirms that my DELL machine is impacted.
[root@sunrise export]# ./Biosdevname-support-check.sh Checking hardware requirements [ OK ] Checking for SMBIOS type 41 support [FAILED] Checking for SMBIOS type 9 support [ OK ] Checking for PCI Interrupt Routing support [ OK ] [root@sunrise export]#
[root@sunrise ~]# ls /sys/class/net em1 lo virbr0 [root@sunrise ~]#
Note: I manually created an ifcfg-em1 andifcfg-br0(for bridging) with usual parameters (*except* HWADDR) ; stopped NM ; start good old 'network' and things work just fine with bridging.
Thanks, James