Re: Is udev necessary for NM plug-in?

[Mu Qiao <qiaomuf gmail com>]

I've made a mistake that I didn't make autoconnect=TRUE for the
connection. This is why the system configuration was not correctly
setup:P.
As a result, I can setup connection totally without udev. So what we
can benefit from udev? Why does ifupdown use it?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Mu Qiao <qiaomuf gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm writing a plugin for Gentoo.
>
> I've read the source code of ifupdown and ifcfg-rh. I find that
> ifupdown use udev to bind device to connection. The main work it has
> done during binding is getting the mac address of network interface
> through udev API and adding it to corresponding connection setting.
> However, I didn't find the same thing in ifcfg-rh.
>
> So I've tried to omit the udev part for my gentoo plugin. After
> starting NetworkManager, although I can see the connection managed by
> my plugin via nm-applet, ifconfig command shows that the network isn't
> correctly setup.
> Do I need to set mac address for each connection to let them work
> correctly? Or there are other things that I didn't handle in the right
> way? I've tried to remove mac address saved in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*, but NM still works
> correctly.
> --
> Best wishes,
> Mu Qiao
>



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Best wishes,
Mu Qiao