[Gllug] NICs on RHEL 4.0

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Mon Nov 13 18:53:58 UTC 2006


On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 05:19:19PM +0000, Yashpal Nagar wrote:
> Finally trying to write udev rules based upon mac address:

[snip]

>    SYSFS{address}="00:0b:cd:4e:31:c1"

[snip]

> Based upon above i made two rule and put them in 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

Surely the following two lines should be uncommented?

> #SYSFS{address}=="00:0b:cd:4e:31:c1", NAME="eth0"
> #SYSFS{address}=="00:0b:cd:4e:2e:f7", NAME="eth1"

and relying on IRQ to name interfaces, which is what I presume these two
lines are doing should be removed?

> BUS=="pci", SYSFS{irq}=="177", NAME="eth0"
> BUS=="pci", SYSFS{irq}=="185", NAME="eth1"
> 
> Both sets above fails stating  the above in logs
> Nov 13 17:16:06 Servername udev[7497]: parse error 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, line 3:0, rule skipped
> Nov 13 17:16:06 Servername  udev[7497]: parse error 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, line 4:0, rule skipped
> 
> does anyone have any clue?

Not me - I've never written a udev rule!

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Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
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