[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r34635 - configurations/trunk/tud

[Nicolas Pierron]

Hi;

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
> Log:
> * Udev no longer assigns persistent names to network devices, so we
>   have to do it ourselves :-(  Use "internal" and "external" instead
>   of eth0 and eth1.
>
> Modified:
>    configurations/trunk/tud/cartman.nix
>
> Modified: configurations/trunk/tud/cartman.nix
> ==============================================================================
> --- configurations/trunk/tud/cartman.nix        Fri Oct 26 10:00:29 2012        (r34634)
> +++ configurations/trunk/tud/cartman.nix        Fri Oct 26 19:28:41 2012        (r34635)
> @@ -172,11 +172,11 @@
>      domain = "buildfarm";
>
>      interfaces = [
> -      { name = "eth1";
> +      { name = "external";
>          ipAddress = myIP;
>          subnetMask = "255.255.254.0";
>        }
> -      { name = "eth0";
> +      { name = "internal";
>          ipAddress = (findSingle (m: m.hostName == "cartman") {} {} machines).ipAddress;
>          subnetMask = "22";
>        }
> @@ -224,27 +224,33 @@
>
> [...]
>
>    services = {
>
> +    udev.extraRules =
> +      ''
> +        ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:19:d1:19:28:bf", NAME="external"
> +        ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:04:23:df:f7:bf", NAME="internal"
> +      '';
> +

This sounds like a common thing which should probably be shared if the
MAC address is defined as part of the network interface and so prevent
users from digging in udev syntax.

-- 
Nicolas Pierron
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