Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names
On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:29:43 +0200, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:18 +1000, Russell Stuart
><russell-debian@stuart.id.au> wrote:
>>I get the distinct feeling some people posting here consider ifup/down
>>"old fashioned". Granted it doesn't have a nice GUI, but from the point
>>of view of someone who deploys lots of similar machines a GUI of any
>>sort is a negative, and it has a far nicer property - it is easily
>>scriptable.
>
>ifupdown _is_ scriptable.
Eh, it _is_ old-fashioned, I wanted to write.
>For example, it doesn't know dependencies
>between Interfaces, which is rather common for a server jockey
>(consider a VLAN on a bridge which is connected to the network via a
>bonding device), and it doesn't handle IP addresses that come and go
>at run time (as it is to be expected on IPv6 networks).
Greetings
Ma "need more coffee" rc
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