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On 2011-10-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2011-10-18, YoYo Siska <yoyo@××××××.sk> wrote: |
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> |
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>> From /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.7.0/net.example: |
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>> ############################################################################## |
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>> # INTERFACE HANDLERS |
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>> # |
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>> # We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2. |
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>> # You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration. |
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>> # For ifconfig support, emerge sys-apps/net-tools |
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>> # For iproute2 support, emerge sys-apps/iproute2 |
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>> |
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>> # If you don't specify an interface then we prefer iproute2 if it's installed |
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>> # To prefer ifconfig over iproute2 |
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>> #modules="ifconfig" |
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> Apparenty the handbook is out of date. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3 |
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> 3.b. Interface Handlers |
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> We provide two interface handlers presently: ifconfig and iproute2. |
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> You need one of these to do any kind of network configuration. |
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> ifconfig is the current Gentoo default and it's included in the |
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> system profile. iproute2 is a more powerful and flexible package, |
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> but it's not included by default. |
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Done. |
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After re-reading those paragraphs a couple times, I've concluded that |
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the authors are talking about what is _installed_ by default, not what |
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is _used_ by default. In my bug report I've suggested that both be |
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explained. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Make me look like |
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at LINDA RONSTADT again!! |
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