Re: ifupdown 0.7~alpha4 in experimental

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

Thanks.

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:06:09PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
...
> This was made possible by Roger Leigh's help and submitters of patches
> that were kindly stored at the BTS. 
...
>    * Allow passing PPP options, pass updetach by default (Closes:
>      #196877).

After 4 years, I thought it will never be added... thanks for proving me
wrong.  Please make sure this will be hitting sid soon.

I see some bug reports like  #204641 are stull there with patch.

Also, llconf
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=170278
seems interesting.

I think there should be some formal interface to exclude interface while
indicating which utility owns/controls it in /etc/network/interfaces so
we do not need to rely on comments and commented out interface.

I mean not like:
---
# N-M takes care this
# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
---

But more like
---
# The primary network interface
#allow-hotplug eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
# N-M takes care eth0
iface eth0 deligate network-manager
---

(I thought I have files wishlist sometime ago ... but ...)

Osamu