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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:04:38PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 21:46:18 Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > > OK, it seems that hard lines in multipart configs seem to be an issue, so |
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> > > I'm doing this now. |
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> > > |
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> > > For a summary of why we're using hard lines you can read this thread |
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> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/45756/focus=45765 |
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> > |
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> > Do you plan to reimplement parsing of the complete ip syntax for |
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> > addresses and routes? |
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> Not at all. If I did then we're back to using newlines. |
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> Basically we need something like |
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> ipaddrs=address1 address2 address3 |
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> for addresses, and |
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> routes=dest gateway dest gateway dest gateway |
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> or |
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> routes=route1 route2 route3 |
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> route1=dest gateway |
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> route2=dest gateway |
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> route3=dest gateway |
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> for routes |
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The problem in this is that you cannot set the properties for each |
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address or route. Please don't take us back to the stoneage of writing |
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the advanced networking configuration manually. |
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As an example of an ip address line with properties: |
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${ext}.30/32 broadcast - scope host |
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An an example of a route with properties: |
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${int}.192/27 dev bond0 mtu 1500 table internal scope link |
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(my normal mtu on the internal link is 9k, but part of the subnet runs |
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at 1500 for netbooting on dumb cards) |
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Doing these in {pre,post}{up,down} means we basically end up |
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reimplementing the baselayout1 array-based config manually in the |
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blocks. I already do that for the ip_rule_runner block. |
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> No, we won't support that. However, we will bring back ip ranges for the last |
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> ocet like so |
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> 1.2.3.4-10/24 |
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I care about the address ranges far less than the additional properties. |
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> After seeing that I take it you'ed vote for the BSD named routing style? |
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I'm ambivalent about the naming scheme - I do care greatly about the |
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easy of configuration for the properties. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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