On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:58:25PM +0700, Alexey Feldgendler
wrote:
> My guess is that it's time to rethink the philosophy
> behind ifupdown and give it some natural development.
Interesting post. Many of these problems (and others not
listed) also apply to the ifup/down suite in other
distributions (e.g. Fedora/Redhat).
There is a GUI tool called "NetworkManager"[1] (henceforth
NM) which is growing in popularity for configuring
networking (although it is only oriented towards the
desktop).
I've been wondering for a while if it might not be possible
to develop a more up-to-date ifup/down that would a)
maintain suitability for non-graphical environments and b)
have enough functionality, cross-distro, to be useful as a
back-end for NM, as I'm pretty uncomfortable with having all
the logic in the same tool as the whizzy interface.
However, ifupdown is Priority: important and Section: base,
meaning that it shall be frozen [2] and that redevelopment
will have to target etch+1.
[1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
[2] (Or already is? it was to be "Next week" as of Aug 8
according to the last release update to d-d-a)
--
Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/
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