Hi Ian, Ian Zimmerman writes:
> On 2020-09-17 20:34, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: > >> apt install netplug wpasupplicant ifupdown > > I happen to dislike ifupdown almost as much as NetworkManager. It is a > poorly documented opaque mess. The fact that it's a debian invention > (AFAIK) and not an import from RH-land is about the only significant > point in its favor. I guess if I had to start with ifupdown anew, then perhaps yes I'd be a bit overwhelmed by all the bells and whistles. I have been using it pretty much from the beginning and I just skip the bits I don't need. > The most straightforward networking setup these days, IMO, is just > running a global instance (ie. not per-interface) of dhcpcd. dhcpcd is > quite smart enough to do such things as bringing iterfaces "up" and > setting up routes by itself. It can even spawn wpasupplicant kids when > necessary. Can dhcpcd also execute "arbitrary" commands when bringing up and taking down interfaces? I recently had a need to spoof a MAC address for my wireless interface, for example, and I like to hang interface specific iptables/nftables rules onto my interfaces when/if they're up. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
