On Thursday 24 April 2008, Luca Barbato wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: > > On Thursday 24 April 2008 00:01:01 Robin H. Johnson wrote: > >> The problem in this is that you cannot set the properties for each > >> address or route. Please don't take us back to the stoneage of writing > >> the advanced networking configuration manually. > >> > >> As an example of an ip address line with properties: > >> ${ext}.30/32 broadcast - scope host > > > > Correct as usual. However, the existing config_foo isn't going anyway > > anytime soon, so your power user config still works. > > However, it will be moving to the right place > > ifconfig_eth0 > > ip_addr_eth0 > > Looks like some documentation could be useful.
documentation is a requirement, but not everyone reads it. existing configs have to keep working and warning on their use is much smoother/easier on everyone. -mike
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