Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:18:32PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > Does that support configurations where I set static addresses > (including ipv6) and routes (also including ipv6) based on the SSID as > is allowed by the oldnet scheme of things? I (and probably lots other > ???power users???) rely

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread Antoni Grzymala
William Hubbs dixit (2010-09-20, 11:16): > I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is > centering on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both. > > The drawback I see for newnet is that it does not allow the user to > control each interface separately, so if you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:52:23AM -0700, Joshua Saddler wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > All, > > > > I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is centering > > on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both. > > Use "oldnet." Wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is centering > on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both. Use "oldnet." Why? 1. We already have a migration guide setup for it: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday, September 20, 2010 13:21:25 Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > The drawback I see for newnet is that it does not allow the user to > > control each interface separately, so if you want to cycle one > > interface for some reason, this is not

Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > The drawback I see for newnet is that it does not allow the user to > control each interface separately, so if you want to cycle one > interface for some reason, this is not doable in that setup. I agree > this is a serious drawback. Old

[gentoo-dev] openrc: oldnet vs newnet

2010-09-20 Thread William Hubbs
All, I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is centering on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both. The drawback I see for newnet is that it does not allow the user to control each interface separately, so if you want to cycle one interface for some reason, this i