On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 02:58:25PM +0700, Alexey Feldgendler wrote: > My guess is that it's time to rethink the philosophy > behind ifupdown and give it some natural development.
Interesting post. Many of these problems (and others not listed) also apply to the ifup/down suite in other distributions (e.g. Fedora/Redhat). There is a GUI tool called "NetworkManager"[1] (henceforth NM) which is growing in popularity for configuring networking (although it is only oriented towards the desktop). I've been wondering for a while if it might not be possible to develop a more up-to-date ifup/down that would a) maintain suitability for non-graphical environments and b) have enough functionality, cross-distro, to be useful as a back-end for NM, as I'm pretty uncomfortable with having all the logic in the same tool as the whizzy interface. However, ifupdown is Priority: important and Section: base, meaning that it shall be frozen [2] and that redevelopment will have to target etch+1. [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ [2] (Or already is? it was to be "Next week" as of Aug 8 according to the last release update to d-d-a) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/
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