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 create >> ifcfg-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 > > -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
