Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:10:03PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote:
> So when an add-in PCI NIC has a lower MAC than the motherboard NICs,
> the add-in cards will come before the motherboard NICs.   i don't like it.

Huh?  Have you used the MAC persistant rules?  If you add a new card,
what does it pick for it?

> But please whatever is done, make sure ping and tracert still works when
> telling it to use a ethX source interface:
> 
> eth0 = 4.3.2.8, the default gateway is thru eth1.
> ping -I eth0 208.67.222.222              FAILS
> ping -I 4.3.2.8 208.67.222.222          WORKS
> tracert -i eth0 -I 208.67.222.222        FAILS
> tracert -s 4.3.2.8 -I 208.67.222.222   WORKS
> tracert -i eth0 208.67.222.222           FAILS
> tracert -s 4.3.2.8 208.67.222.222      WORKS

Again, is what we currently have broken?  I am confused as to what this
is referring to.

greg k-h
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