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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> I don't profess to have closely investigated, but I take it that it |
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> wouldn't make sense to just use networkd instead? It seems to me that |
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> configuring a network isn't exactly a Gentoo-specific problem. |
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For simple configurations, networkd is fine. |
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The problem and power of netifrc comes a lot from it's variable use. |
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A lot of my advanced configs take full advantage of variables, so that I |
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don't need to change an IP in a dozen places, and can change it just |
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once. |
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I have some advanced examples here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/conf.d-net/ |
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For example, here's drop-in TunnelBroker tunnels, just fill in 5 |
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variables (plus two more if you're not using eth0 as your WAN or eth1 as |
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your LAN): |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~robbat2/conf.d-net/ipv6-addon.txt |
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The multihomed example is slightly stale [1], because the functionality |
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it added with functions got added to netifrc when it gained full support |
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for RPDB. However, it will still work out of the box, just change the IP |
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addresses and networks. |
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If networkd got all this variable and processing support, plus the other |
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modules from netifrc, then it could replace netifrc, except for the fact |
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that Gentoo still wants to support OpenRC. |
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[1] You can tell it's really old because it still uses the bash array |
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syntax. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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