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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] config_eth0 deprecated - new name?
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:10:57
Message-Id: 48104048.3020102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] config_eth0 deprecated - new name? by Roy Marples
1 Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Thursday 24 April 2008 00:01:01 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 >> The problem in this is that you cannot set the properties for each
4 >> address or route. Please don't take us back to the stoneage of writing
5 >> the advanced networking configuration manually.
6 >>
7 >> As an example of an ip address line with properties:
8 >> ${ext}.30/32 broadcast - scope host
9 >
10 > Correct as usual. However, the existing config_foo isn't going anyway anytime
11 > soon, so your power user config still works.
12 > However, it will be moving to the right place
13 > ifconfig_eth0
14 > ip_addr_eth0
15
16 Looks like some documentation could be useful.
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18 lu
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22 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] config_eth0 deprecated - new name? Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>