Re: Proposal: Network configuration file format

[Rene Mayrhofer <rmayr@vianova.at>]

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:04:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > scheme internal
> > iface eth0 inet4 static
> >       address 10.0.0.4
> >       netmask 255.0.0.0
> >       network 10.0.0.0
> >       broadcast 10.255.255.255
> >
> > iface eth0:0 inet4 dhcp
> >       # erm. I think. this may or may not work. Does dhcp over an
> >       # alias actually work?
> 
> Dont know if the software does, but the protcol should work, but of course
> only for one address for each physical interface. BTW: dont forget the new
> style add-address functions which obsolete the alias interfaces. You can add
> multiple protcols and multiple addresses for each potocol to a interface.
My main goal is to incorporate all features that kernel 2.2.x (or 2.4.x
as I am reading in debian-devel lately...) provides with networking.
This means using the "ip" and "ipchains" commands.

Rene