Re: Suggestions for refactoring the network scripts

2011-07-15 Thread Bryan Kadzban
William Immendorf wrote: > We should start with only using one configuration file per interface, Strong disagreement from me on this one. I *really, really* do not want to give up wake-on-LAN. That requires two config files per interface, because it requires two services per interface. (One for

Re: Suggestions for refactoring the network scripts

2011-07-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:53:49 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> William Immendorf wrote: >>> * The fact that both DHCPCD and dhclient had very similar >>> comfiguration files, which made it hard to implement DHCP support in >>> the backends. >> I have not looked at dhcp or wir

Re: Suggestions for refactoring the network scripts

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:53:49 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > William Immendorf wrote: > > * The fact that both DHCPCD and dhclient had very similar > > comfiguration files, which made it hard to implement DHCP support in > > the backends. > > I have not looked at dhcp or wireless-tools with respect t

Re: Suggestions for refactoring the network scripts

2011-07-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
William Immendorf wrote: > A year or so ago, I was working on getting Gnome-system-tools to > support BLFS (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624299). > While I was doing that, I ran into roadblocks when trying to implement > the network functions. They were: > > * The configuration files

Suggestions for refactoring the network scripts

2011-07-14 Thread William Immendorf
A year or so ago, I was working on getting Gnome-system-tools to support BLFS (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624299). While I was doing that, I ran into roadblocks when trying to implement the network functions. They were: * The configuration files. Instead of a single file, there wer