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On Thursday 24 April 2008, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Roy Marples wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 24 April 2008 00:01:01 Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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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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> >> |
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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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> > |
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> > Correct as usual. However, the existing config_foo isn't going anyway |
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> > anytime soon, so your power user config still works. |
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> > However, it will be moving to the right place |
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> > ifconfig_eth0 |
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> > ip_addr_eth0 |
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> |
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> Looks like some documentation could be useful. |
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documentation is a requirement, but not everyone reads it. existing configs |
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have to keep working and warning on their use is much smoother/easier on |
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everyone. |
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-mike |
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