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FS#25920 - [initscripts] network: multiple addresses and gateways

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by changaco (changaco) - Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 17:10 GMT
Last edited by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 14:05 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The basic network daemon is great for computers with only one IP address, but a single wired interface can have multiple addresses and gateways (e.g. one of each for both IPv4 and IPv6). Maybe you consider that one should use netcfg for that, I apologize if this issue has already been debated.

I wrote a simple implementation that introduces the variables "addresses" and "gateways" while maintaining basic retro-compatibility with the current variables "address", "netmask", "broadcast" and "gateway".

Additional info:
initscripts 2011.07.3-1
   network-multiple-addresses.pa... (0.8 KiB)
   network-multiple-addresses-co... (1.1 KiB)
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Closed by  Tom Gundersen (tomegun)
Thursday, 08 September 2011, 14:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Ike Devolder (BlackEagle) - Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 17:33 GMT
i tought the implementation in initscripts is one to be as simple as possible

if one needs a more sofisticated network setup you should use:
- netcfg
- networkmanager
- (wicd)

tell me if i'm wrong

-- edit --

see http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/
Comment by changaco (changaco) - Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 18:18 GMT
The proposed patch is very simple. I like netcfg on my laptop, I just don't feel the need for it on the server I wrote these patches for.
Comment by Tom Gundersen (tomegun) - Thursday, 08 September 2011, 14:05 GMT
@changaco: thanks for your contribution. We have discussed the issue of what usecases to support a lot, and have decided (at least for the time being) not to support multiple addresses/gateways. The reason for this is not in the complexity of the implementation, but that we want to limit the number of usecases we have to test/support (and possibly port in the future).

Please use netcfg or networkmanager for anything more complicated.

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