On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:29 AM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you really want to go to a single config file, why not take a peak at
> how Ubuntu does their networking scripts then? I don't know how they
> work internally, but parsing logic seems obvious enough on the surface.
> The single config file, /etc/network/interfaces, is used there and looks
> fairly nice and is certainly self explanatory:
Yes, that looks very simple and very achievable. It would also be very
easy to implement in system-tools-backends, due to how it looks
similar to Debian.
I can even give you ideas for conceptual scripts for DHCP, PPoE, and wifi:
For DHCP:
{{{
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
service <either dhclient or dhcpcd>
start_opts "<dhclient or dhcpcd start opts>"
stop_opts "<dhclient or dhcpcd stop opts>"
print_ip true
print_all false
}}}
For PPoE:
{{{
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet ppoe
opts "user jdoe remotename adsl"
}}}
For Wifi with DHCPCD:
{{{
# The primary network interface:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet wifi dhcp
ssid "DontPanic"
service <either dhclient or dhcpcd>
start_opts "<dhclient or dhcpcd start opts>"
stop_opts "<dhclient or dhcpcd stop opts>"
print_ip true
print_all false
}}}
See? All simple.
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