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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: OpenRC Networking Scripts
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 14:57:46
Message-Id: 20120527145656.GA5206@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: OpenRC Networking Scripts by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:49:07AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
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5 > On 26/05/12 03:40 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
6 > > All,
7 > >
8 > > I realize this has been discussed and there are definite opinions
9 > > about which method works well. So, I want to take a different
10 > > approach.
11 > >
12 > > Is there any interest in documenting and supporting newnet along
13 > > side oldnet as opposed to killing newnet?
14 > >
15 > > Newnet would consist of the "network" init script to set up your
16 > > loopback interface along with something like dhcpcd,
17 > > networkmanager, or wicd (and wpa_supplicant for wireless
18 > > interfaces) running in standalone mode to manage your other
19 > > interfaces.
20 > >
21 > > My understanding of the way newnet works is that the big advantage
22 > > would come for workstations that have a simple network setup and
23 > > where users would want hotplugged interfaces to just work.
24 > >
25 > > Any thoughts?
26 > >
27 > > William
28 > >
29 >
30 >
31 > Just want to point out that my hotplugged interfaces work great with
32 > oldnet.
33
34 Actually they don't, because we don't make or remove the net.* symlinks
35 in /etc/init.d for the hotplugged interfaces when the interfaces are
36 added or removed.
37
38 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: OpenRC Networking Scripts Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>