Hi Mike,
Thank you for working on this. I'm always glad to see someone working
on homogenization. I dare to post a few comments though:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:29:06PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> What it does
> ------------
> - rc.d/network_ipv6 is no longer necessary and can be removed
> - IPv6 configuration is done on each interface in rc.d/netif along with IPv4
> - IPv6 routing and options processing is done in rc.d/routing along with IPv4
> - You can now do things like:
> # Start/Stop IPv6 on all interfaces
> /etc/rc.d/netif (start|stop) ip6
> # Start/Stop IPv6 only on interface rl0
> /etc/rc.d/netif (start|stop) rl0 ip6
> # Do IPv6 options processing
> /etc/rc.d/routing options ip6
As Dag-Erling said, it may conflict with a future if_ip. Moreover,
network interfaces are renameable, so the namespace conflict is even
more likely.
Although it breaks the standard rc(8) syntax, I would personaly prefer:
/etc/rc.d/netif (start6|stop6) rl0
BTW, the proposed syntax isn't very usual either :).
> - In order to differentiate between v4 and v6 configuration directives some
> knobs in rc.conf(5)have been renamed with an ipv4_ prefix:
> network_interfaces
> ifconfig_DEFAULT
> ifconfig_<interface>
> ifconfig_<interface>_aliasX
> defaultrouter
> gateway_enable
> static_routes
> etc...
>
> - Modify all scripts that reference old knobs (without ipv4_ prefix) to
> reference the new version of the knobs
>
> - Compatibility shims in rc.subr(8) so that old uses of knobs without an
> ipv4_ prefix work as expected. As part of this change split the
> code for this processing into its own function: old2new_knobs()
This is neat. What about issuing a warning in order to make a
quicker transition ?
Again, thank you for working on this.
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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