Re: better /etc/init.d/network

[Michel Onstein <michel@promera.nl>]

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   # /etc/network/eth0
>   IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>   NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>   NETWORK=192.168.0.0
>   BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
>   GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
> 

As we're discussing things here... i think it's important that we add the
possbility to attach IPv6 addresses to an interface. Since you can have
multiple IPv6 addresses on an interface i was thinking of something like
this:

IPADDR = 192.168.2.1
IP6ADDR = 3ffe:604:5:4::1/80
IP6ADDR = 5ffe:12:2::1/80

Taking the current IPv6 aggregatable addressing scheme in mind it might be
better to seperate the prefixes from the addresses, something like:

PREFIX6 = 3ffe:604:5:4/80
PREFIX6 = 5ffe:12:2/80
HOST6 = 1

If there's noone objecting to the addition of IPv6 stuff to the interface
we could work out a proper way of specifying it on the debian-ipv6 list.

Comments?

Michel Onstein     |   CistroN Group    |  Linux-, Internet-
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