Hello Jesse , Is the perl script you have developed proprietry ?
Or would you be willing to place it under GPL ? I find myself
interested in it for the same reason as you are using it .
Tia, JimL
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:
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> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:02:39 -0400, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > > (ii) I noticed recently one some machine that the two
> > > ethernet cards had interchanged names. And indeed,
> > > if I am not mistaken the 2.4.0-test2 change to eth_setup
> > > causes the familiar ether=0,0,eth1 boot parameter to
> > > assign the eth1 name to the first detected card.
> > > I am inclined to consider this a buglet -
> > > it is a bit inconvenient if one has to test kernel version
> > > in the boot scripts.
> > > I'd tend to agree. Can you say a bit more about the change to
> > > eth_setup (not being familiar with that section of code).
> > How about configuring IP address based on the MAC address of the card
> > rather than what the kernel happens to name it?
> Thats easy enough to do now - I have a perl script that parses an
> ifconfig, extracts the MAC address and then sets the IP that I have
> associated with it. It can even change the name of the host, as well
> as configure other things depending on the identity of the MAC
> address.
> This lets me use one backup system disk that can reconfigure itself to the
> host -- just plug it in and boot.
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