On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:11:58AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 06:09:19PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > an interface up or down, consistently with configuration, and exit > > > with non-zero if either operation fails. > > > > Is ifup "eth0=foo" supported ? > > Should be fairly easy to add that to ipcfg, which might be a good idea. > Let's make that part of the interface, too.
OK. > > > - 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 ? > > There are namespace issues, but I don't think they should be explained > in the interface specification; the tools should do so in their > documentation. I mention it to avoid e.g. eth0=foo to have a very different meaning in each implementation. > > > - ifup and ifdown should support a '-v' or '--verbose' option to aid in > > > debugging. > > > > This requirement does not feel necessary. > > If a tool calls ifup, it may wish to call it with -v to provide some > output to the user should bringing the interface up fail, which can be > useful. Perhaps it should be clarified that the output format of -v is > undefined. OK then. The point is that it should be safe to call 'ifup -v' to get some detail (if any). Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
