On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 03:31:28PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:54:37AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > [...response that is not very relevant to this mail...] > > There was no further discussion on this item since the above date. Since > I've recently uploaded ipcfg, I'd like this to be finalized. It > currently uses 'ifupdown' as the name to conflict/replace/provide, but I > don't consider that to be a particularly good idea. > > I'm suggesting that the package name 'network-config-tool' be described > as a tool for a package providing 'ifup' and 'ifdown' binaries. These > should provide the following interface: > > - support 'ifup <interface name>' or 'ifdown <interface name>' to bring > an interface up or down, consistently with configuration, and exit > with non-zero if either operation fails.
Is ifup "eth0=foo" supported ? > - may provide a virtual interface name that does not map to an actual > physical interface name, but instead uses internal logic to decide > what to do. Is not there a namespace issues wrt other interface that should be clarified ? > - ifup and ifdown should support a '-a' or '--all' option to configure > or deconfigure 'all' interfaces. Here, 'all' is defined as 'all > interfaces for which the tool's configuration defines that they should > be brought up or down with the -a option'. OK. > - ifup and ifdown should support a '-v' or '--verbose' option to aid in > debugging. This requirement does not feel necessary. > - ifup and ifdown should support hook scripts in > /etc/network/if-*.d: > - the tool should provide a way for the user to set configuration > values through environment variables, the name of which start with > IF_ > - the tool should provide PHASE and MODE variables, describing what > we're trying to do > - (since I could not find a formal specification of the if-*.d hook > script interface, I may have missed some things; if so, please let > me know) Can't comment. > [aj: I haven't seen any comment from you on this, and would like to make > sure that you're comfortable with whatever interface we come up with -- > please comment.] I agree that the agreement of the ifupdown maintainers is very important. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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