also sprach Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.09.0905 +0200]: > > I also encourage you to take a look at guessnet, which is the only > > autoconfiguration tool in true Debian spirit. > > Care to elaborate? How does it gain the "true Debian spirit" that > others lack?
It integrates with ifupdown (configuration happens in /etc/network/interfaces), and it only does what it needs to do; no overlaps with existing software. Other tools, like whereami, do not fit in as tightly as guessnet (separate configuration and paradigms), and they do more than they should: hooks, interface configuration, etc. ifupdown is the Debian way to handle that, and guessnet builds on this fact. I am not saying that the others aren't good, and maybe I am not "authorized" to claim that guessnet embodies the "true Debian spirit" (I am just another developer, after all), so the above is really just my opinion. You may be interested though that in the process of writing my book [0], which is about Debian and Debian only, guessnet was the only tool of its kind which got coverage, precisely because of the above. Anyway, guessnet is under active development; if it lacks a feature you would like to see, please let us know! A good place for such discussion is the netconf-devel mailing list on lists.alioth.debian.org. 0. http://debianbook.info -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! "time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana." -- groucho marx
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