Re: /etc/network/interfaces & point-to-point ethernet & broadcast address
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:59:49PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:27:57 +1100, Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
> >I have been looking at the "ip address" command.
> >
> >It appears to be the new (and cleaner) way to add addresses to network
> >devices (previously known as aliases).
>
> Yes. And Debian would have had a elegant way to use ip (from the
> iproute package) if ifupdown's maintainer would finally apply the
> patch from Bug #88948.
>
> I have a package ready that allows ifupdown to do much more magic.
> That package is in use for one and a half years at the site I work
> for, but it needs the patch (better said, the current version of that
> patch) from Bug #88948 applied.
>
> The patch is trivial, it doesn't break backwards compatibility. It has
> been impossible to get a statement from the ifupdown maintainer since
> the bug has been filed.
Can you (or someone else) tell me the URL of the patch? I'd like to
test it.
N.B. I'm not DD (just lurking on the list) so I don't know how to use
BTS yet.
/Milan
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