Re: 2.1 upgrade to 2.2
The new package asks
What IP addresses (or address ranges) should be considered local?
I am wondering what that means. Do I enter several addresses for the _local_
machine, do I enter the addresses for the _local_ network (i.e. w/o goping
over a gateway) or do I enter the local IP address net, i.e. class A, B or C
network?
I think it would be usful, if a few more data would be given in the dialog.
Thanks.
Rainer.
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:46:40PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > That's when I discovered that the network-related files in /etc/init.d had
> > changed considerably. A quick question about this. I really hope this
> > doesn't sound snippy, or like I'm stepping over the line, but can someone
> > familiar with the new networking setup drop a quick note or maybe point me
> > to a document describing the advantages?
>
> Details about the changes should be in /usr/doc/netbase/README.Debian, man
> ifup, man interfaces, and appear during configuration of the new netbase.
> For a change, there's no lack of documentation about how networking is
> meant to work.
>
> Other things this fixes are:
> * spoof protection is now easy to configure even for 2.0 kernels
> * forwarding is asked about, rather than left to the admin's devices
> * default setups (as made by boot-floppies) work correctly with
> both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels and without ugly warnings
> * portmap and inetd have obviously named init.d scripts
> * networking can be easily shutdown as well as started up in most
> cases
>
> ifup/down (and hence some of the other changes) also make DHCP and
> IPv6 and other things easier to support, and more straightforward to
> admin. IMHO, anyway. In a couple of weeks or a month or sometime, the
> woody versions will also become a lot neater, again IMHO, in ways that
> are only possible thanks to a... "simpler" networking setup. Splitting
> /etc/init.d/netbase also helps with splitting up netbase, which I suspect
> I'll do sooner rather than later, and will trim down the base system
> a little.
>
> You can, of course, just ignore most of those changes if you prefer the old
> way.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
> (netbase maintainer)
>
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