Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:05:32 -0500, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Two questions still arise. Does LFS need to be able to support this
>> unusual configuration "out of the box"? Does the virtual multi-nic
>> configuration need to be set in the udev rules prior to the first boot?
>
> Well, I don't see how this virtual multi-nic setup is different from a
> physcial multi-nic setup. Under VMWare ESXi, which we use here, I don't think
> it's possible to tell that you're running under a hypervisor.
>
> Therefore, if the current or proposed udev configuration can handle
> multiple physical NICs, it would work in the VM scenario I described above.
According to the udev-182 rule, the vmware nics have a mac address of
00:0c:29:xx:xx:xx or 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx. That matches the only version
of vmware that I have access to. That rule,
75-persistent-net-generator.rules, skips running the write_net_rules
script for vmware:
# ignore VMWare virtual interfaces
ENV{MATCHADDR}=="00:0c:29:*|00:50:56:*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"
My supposition is that vmware generates the last 3 bytes of the mac
addresses randomly at each boot, but I really don't know. I speculate
that they could also be set explicitly by the admin.
-- Bruce
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