On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:46:39PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes: > > I'm very much in favor of this change. I first tried out the new > > /etc/network/interfaces stuff last month, and it works very well. > > The current /etc/init.d/network setup is horrible and it isn't even > > compliant with the LSB init file actions proposal (i.e. no start, stop, > > reload, etc). > > I think this would be a great addition, > I am theoretically in favor of this change. With the caveat that I am > only interested in eliminating /etc/init.d/network and replacing that > with /etc/network/interfaces. Which is to say, I do not propose to > change any PCMCIA stuff at this point. > > Stefan, please send a patch to this list so we may peruse it. You > should be patching form the boot-floppies CVS area. This sounds reasnoable to me. If so, I'm amenable to removine the `alpha' and `unsupported' warnings from the conffile. The DHCP stuff probably needs changing for it to work for everyone, I'm not sure. I've had problems with the dhcpcd package under 2.2.x I think, while it works fine for others. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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