Re: RFC: new network config (was: Re: network configuration)
On Thu, 4 February 1999 23:26:45 +0000, Christian Hammers wrote:
> But I *strongly* need comments.
You read mine?
> My approach is now the following. I try to use as many well-known files as
> possible. The only new file is /etc/interfaces which is itself very
> "compatible" since it takes the parameters for insmod 1:1 (nearly).
So you have the insmod parameters in that?
I rather say you do not have..?
|/etc/interfaces
|193.218.213.16 netmask 255.255.255.248 broadcast 193.218.213.23
Like this?
> Now the workflow in pseudo-perl:
>
> /etc/init.d/interfaces start
> foreach $line (<"/etc/interfaces">) {
> `ifconfig $line up`
> `route add &calc_base_address($ip, $netmask) eth0`
> }
Do we want to have the (basic) routes here?
I like to have all the interfaces up first
(including all :1 and :2 (ip_alias)) and *then*
start giving the basic routes. Beware of
duplicate routes here..
> /etc/init.d/routes start
> foreach $line (<"/etc/gateways">) {
> `route add $ip gw $gw`
> }
You will have to put quite some more magic in this since it is
not just the IP for the route and it's hardly a gateway for each
entry. Besides /etc/gateways is used elsewhere, is it?
> 3rd thing: does anything apart from NFS need portmap ? I seems so to me and
> if, it should also vanish from netbase, because now it gets started all the
> time, and I have the strange feeling, that I do not need it !
It hurts no-one. I would like to have it started.
Alexander
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Alexander Koch - <>< - aka Efraim - PGP - 0xE7694969 - Hannover - Germany
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