Re: /etc/init.d/network is too simple?

[R Garth Wood <rgwood@peace.netnation.com>]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Victor B Wagner wrote:

You should probably do as well:
if [ -f /proc/net/dev ]
then
	if [ "`grep '^  $interface' /proc/net/dev`" -ne "" ]
	then
		ifconfig ...
	fi
fi

> Reallty there should be separate files, perhaps in /etc/network
> which consist solely of variable definitions:
> say: 
> 
> /etc/network/eth1
> IPADDR=192.168.217.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=
> BROADCAST=
> 
> and base script should contain something like
> echo -n "configuring network interfaces "
> for i in /etc/network/*; do
>   interface=`basename $i`
>   source $i
>   echo "$interface "
>   ifconfig $interface  $IPADDR netmask $NETMASK
>   route add -net ${NETWORK}
> done
> echo ""
> 
> Possibly, there should be separtate script to configure network interfaces
> say /sbin/netconfig
> and /etc/init.d/network
> should contain only
> case $1 of
> start)
>    for $i in `ls /etc/network` ; do
>        /sbin/netconfig $i up
>    done
> ;;
> stop) 
>    for $i in `ls /etc/network` ; do
>      /sbin/netconfig $i down
>    done
> ;;
> esac
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