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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