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On Friday 11 November 2011 16:53:44 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> has prompted a discussion of whether or not we should use ifconfig in |
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> openrc to configure networking on linux systems. |
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no, the discussion is whether we should continue to have ifconfig be an option |
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at all, not "always use ifconfig". as long as we need net-tools in the system, |
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openrc should support ifconfig as an option for basic configuration. |
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defaulting to iproute when it's available, and requiring it for more |
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complicated stuff is fine by me. but adding static ip addresses and static |
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routes is trivial to support. |
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-mike |
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