Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Greetings,
a lot of setups require the addition of multiple ip addresses
to a single network interface. The default ifupdown system debian
employs offers no configuration directives to achieve this. The
attached script in conjunction with the iproute package enables
the configuration file /etc/network/interfaces to solve this issue
by the introduction of a new parameter calles "addresses":

iface eth0 inet static
    # the usual configuration
    address 192.168.0.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    # additional addresses, even multiple per line
    addresses 192.168.1.5/24 192.168.1.6/24
    # multiple lines can be added by using an appended label
    addresses-sslsites 192.168.10.1/24 192.168.10.4/24
    addresses-debug 10.0.0.2/8

The script (http://wertarbyte.de/debian/addresses) is placed in
the directory /etc/network/if-up.d/ and a symlink towards it in
if-down.d interprets the new parameters, merges all specified
addresses and adds them by using "ip". When deconfiguring the
interface, the addresses are removed as well.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-amd64
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11etch2       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  net-tools              1.60-17           The NET-3 networking toolkit

ifupdown recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true

Attachment: addresses
Description: application/shellscript

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