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[Pieter Lenaerts <e-type AT sourcemage.org>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:23:24PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:10:13PM +0200, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> > > Am Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:24:28 +0200
> > > schrieb Pieter Lenaerts <e-type AT sourcemage.org>:
> [...]
> > personnally I think we should either get device renaming and setting
> > macs out of netconf or make it robust so that it does what it seems to
> > provide.
> > 
> > "slight discomforts" and "oh, it only works under circumstances X, Y
> > and Z" are crap, so either our stuff does a good job or it doesn't say
> > it can do the job.
> 
> Agreed. Overall I'd say remove the MAC spoofing from our tools. Make our
> tools support persistent device naming based on MAC, and let the user
> deal with stuff himself if he wants spoofing.
> MAC spoofing really isn't such a common use case imo, persistent device
> names are.

right, what I'd do is put current netconf in a devel tree, seperate if
must be, don't care, and get a netconf without macs changing and with
persistent naming by udev in master.

right now we got semi-working stuff in master

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Pieter Lenaerts
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