On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:37:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday, November 6, 2006 8:42 pm, Mattia Dongili wrote:
[...]
> > > test -n "${IF_UML_PROXY_ARP}" || exit 0
> > > test -n "${IF_UML_PROXY_ETHER}" || exit 0
> >
> > So we have 2 undocumented options for /etc/network/interfaces, right?
>
> Wrong. These are hardly ifupdown (or, if you like, /etc/network/interfaces)
> options. If at all, these are uml-utilities options. To quote interfaces.5:
>
> Additionally, all options given in an interface definition stanza
> are exported to the environment in upper case with "IF_" prepended
> and with hyphens converted to underscores and non-alphanumeric char-
> acters discarded.
Yes that's what I meant. _We_ have undocumented features, not the
ifupdown package :)
> I, too, am not an ifupdown expert and I was confused about it myself at the
> beginning. Think about that quote when you take another look at the tap1
> example from /usr/share/doc/uml-utilities/examples/interfaces.example.
Ah, didn't look at it, more clear now. The should be mentioned in the
README.Debian as well.
> > > + # Don't know why
> > > + # arp -d "$i" pub
> > > + # failed
> >
> > hummm, did arp -Ds succeded in the first place?
>
> Yes. arp -Ds succeded in the first place It succeded in the sense
> that the arp table was modified. I am not sure if I succeded to get
> rootstrap to use the host network, but this is tangantile for this
> discussion. Actually, it might not be tangtaile. Perhaps the fact
> that I still haven't ran rootstrap succesfully is the reason for the
> failure. More specifically, I get a `to be determined' answer from
> arp:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/arp -n | grep -v ether
> Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
> Iface
> 192.168.1.120 * <from_interface> MP
> eth0
>
> In any case, as I have already pointed out in my second report to
> the BTS,
>
> arp -i "${IF_UML_PROXY_ETHER}" -d "$i" pub
>
> does remove the uml line from the arp table.
Yes, thanks
--
mattia
:wq!
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