On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 09:19:38AM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > I had a chance to take a quick look at the new ifup and ifdown commands > in netbase, but I was unable to find documentation about the > /etc/interfaces grammar. How does this file have to look like and what > features and options are currently implemented ? The grammar's incredibly trivial. Each line is either: # comment scheme <SCHEMENAME> iface <IFACE> <ADDRESS_FAMILY> <METHOD> or <OPTION> <ARGUMENTS...> Options relate to the last iface that was declared, iface's are in the last scheme that was declared (the default is '*' which matches anything). It's nominally documented in the source and in the /etc/network/interfaces file in netbase. There ain't much real documentation yet. Where did "/etc/interfaces" come from btw? That's what it used to be called before Wichert convinced me to move it to /etc/network/interfaces. Have I been inconsistent somewhere? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP 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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