Changeset d29a03b for chapter07

Timestamp:

08/12/2012 08:02:11 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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Children:

9dea41d

Parents:

0840dab

Message:

Update to udev (systemd)-188

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9933 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter07/network.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter07/network.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
   class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rc*.d</filename>).</para>
 
-  <sect2>
+  <sect2 id='stable-net-names'>
     <title>Creating stable names for network interfaces</title>
 
@@ -42 +42 @@
     to network cards based on their MAC address.</para>
 
-    <para>Pre-generate the rules to ensure the same names get assigned to the
-    same devices at every boot, including the first:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>for NIC in /sys/class/net/* ; do
-    INTERFACE=${NIC##*/} udevadm test --action=add $NIC
-done</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Now, inspect the <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename>
-    file, to find out which name was assigned to which network device:</para>
+    <para>The rules were pre-generated in the build instructions for
+    <application>udev (systemd)</application> in the last chapter.  Inspect the
+    <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</filename> file, to
+    find out which name was assigned to which network device:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules</userinput></screen>
+
+    <note><para>In some cases such as when MAC addresess have been assigned to
+    a network card manually or in a virtual envirnment such as Xen,
+    the network rules file may not have been generated because addresses 
+    are not consistently assigned.  In these cases, just continue to
+    the next section.</para></note>
 
     <para>The file begins with a comment block followed by two lines for each