Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-11-24 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On May 21, 2004 12:04 am, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:29:19PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I found out recently that the Linux (or at least recent RedHat) startup > > > scripts could be co

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-24 Thread Alex Semenyaka
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:51:47AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: >> You've absolutely right and I wanted to propose it just on the base of >> currently existing functionality (independently of this thread). However if >> there will be automatic renaming things would be easier. Thus I decided to >>

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-24 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> Well actually you should discuss the necessity of the changes in ifconfig with > the author of the original posting :) What I proposed was just middle way > between what he proposed and what I did. I mean if somebody is changing > ifconfig anyway that way would be easier to implement. However pe

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-24 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > >>> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like > > >>> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int" > > >> I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface > > >>

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-23 Thread Alex Semenyaka
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > >>> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like > >>> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int" > >> I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface > >> namespace

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-23 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
This is all pretty interesting, though it seems like you'd only need to cobble together a shell script to do what you're after. The ifconfig command seems happy to tell you the MAC address of a specified interface.. It seems like an already present prototyping environment for this type of configu

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-21 Thread Alex Semenyaka
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: >> This could be the first step towards teaching rc.conf about something like >> network_interfaces_rename="hw-00:03:0d:08:dc:a7 sis0int" > I don't really like the idea of adding magic values to the interface > namespace that only work w

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:29:19PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found out recently that the Linux (or at least recent RedHat) startup > > scripts could be configured to not bring up an Ethernet interface unless > > i

Re: [RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-20 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 07:29:19PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Hi, > > I found out recently that the Linux (or at least recent RedHat) startup > scripts could be configured to not bring up an Ethernet interface unless > it has a specified MAC address. This, combined with the wonderful > interf

[RFC] ifconfig: match by link-level address

2004-05-20 Thread Peter Pentchev
Hi, I found out recently that the Linux (or at least recent RedHat) startup scripts could be configured to not bring up an Ethernet interface unless it has a specified MAC address. This, combined with the wonderful interface renaming functionality recently committed to -CURRENT, led me to the ide