Hi! On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: > However all of the docs I see just now suggest using a bridge.
There are docs recommending to take the burden of kernel software briding to add an alias IP?! > Configuring multiple IP addresses on interfaces like that is new in > recent versions of ifupdown. Wow, this is surprising! I considered it an old basic classic standard feature. > Whether it works or not depends upon the version of the program. Amazing. > Previously it was necessary to use different tagged interfaces > or to use up/down commands to add additional ip addresses. Ahh, you mean I could try the old "eth0:0" approach? But I guess it won't be compatible with VLANs. >> First I thought "ifup" would be a shell script, but apparently >> ifupdown uses source code generation to generate Perl code from some >> "noweb" code and uses the generated Perl code to generate C code which >> then is compiled using a generated Makefile -- all this is not easy to >> read / understand, so I decided to write a mail here hoping someone >> can enlighten me :) > > It depends upon the version of ifupdown. Previously it used a > literate programming technique with TeX embedded documentation and C > code using "notangle" and .nw files. yeah, I see you also took a look :) > apt-cache show noweb Wikipedia tells: noweb is a literate programming tool, created in 1989–1999 by Norman Ramsey. But it seems to be maintained. > Recent versions have been converted to plain C. The changelog for > version 0.7.44 says: > * Convert from noweb to plain C Good to know :) But I think it is not yet released in stable. Regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caobounnj9wxydqnavtk3oyxpktmzxrs8ldrrf-mitv-fxk9...@mail.gmail.com
