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Re: Bug#786902: O: ifupdown -- high level tools to configure network interfaces



Am 29.05.2015 um 06:59 schrieb roopa:
> ifupdown did pose a few challenges to manage interfaces at the scale we
> deploy (sometimes more than 2000 interfaces
> bridges/bonds etc). But we loved the extensibility and modularity it
> provided.
> And the only difficulty continuing with ifupdown was extending it in
> bash and literate programing language it was written in.
> 
> We decided to rewrite it but continue to provide the existing user
> interface and also extend it with other features which would
> make configuration easier. And we rewrote it in python
> https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2.

Does ifupdown2 handle hotplugged / dynamic interfaces, and if so, how?
Is it written as a daemon?


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