Hi Ludo, Julien Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Alexey, > > (Cc: Julien, author of Guile-Netlink.) > [...] > > I’m sure your improvements to Guile-Netlink would be welcome. > Regarding ‘static-networking’ in Guix, the goal was to allow it to be as > expressive as the underlying netlink interface, but clearly we focused > on the most common use cases. > > If you can think of how you’d like to represent these setups in > ‘static-networking’ (perhaps a ‘bonds’ field similar to the netplan YAML > snippet you showed?), we (or you :-)) can try and implement it. Yeah, that was my intention =). @Julien Could you tell me how can I collaborate? Shall I send patches to you directly or maybe debbugs, or guix-patches? >> 2. Having a router with Guix at home. I have to run multiple services >> that provision 'networking' which is not allowed right now. The DHCP >> client service is greedy right now and binds to all available >> interfaces. I sent a [1] patch to solve this. However, I cannot define >> dhcp-client and static configuration at the same time anyway. > > OK, we could allow users to change the Shepherd service name used by the > DHCP client then. That would indeed help for now. I can prepare yet another patch for that. [...] > I’m not sure. IIUC, a “networking target” here could translate to a > Shepherd service that depends on all the relevant DHCP and static > networking services. The question the becomes how to express that > grouping conveniently. Yes, I also would like to point out that their must be a way to establish a firewall, for example, *before* any network interface is up (After=network-pre.target in systemd [1]). And the same thing during the shutdown procedure (Before=network-pre.target in systemd). Applications have to be able to gracefully shutdown their network connections. Is it the case right now, I don't know? I am checking (shepherd services) where `shutdown-services' defined, and seems like it just walks across %services hash table. Am I missing something? Footnotes: [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.special.html#network-pre.target -- Alexey
