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On 02/06/2012 01:04 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I've been pondering for a while why All of OpenRC's network interfaces |
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> provide net. |
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> My understanding of the "net" service is that it is there to signal that |
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> a generic network connection is active. |
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> What I would like to do in OpenRC is change the network scripts so that |
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> only the loopback interface provides net. |
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> The down side of this approach will be that if a daemon uses a specific |
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> ip address in its configuration, or if it binds to a specific address, |
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> the user will have to set up the appropriate configuration options in |
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> /etc/conf.d. For example, if I setup sshd to use 192.168.10.1 and eth0 has |
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> this address, I have to put the following line in /etc/conf.d/sshd: |
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> rc_need="net.eth0" |
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That makes perfect sense. I suspect that the most common case is to have |
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sshd bind to all interfaces, and if that's true then special |
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configuration will not be needed in the most common cases. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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