Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts

[Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@xwredwing.net>]

Why not make the script back out of everything its done?  I.e., rather than downing the interface, unset any networking things it has set.  Unconfigure the ip, etc.

A super network interface control script would be cool too, something that is kept up to date and understands all of the Linux networking features that may be applicable.  Maybe like a single script that by itself is device agnostic (could configure a normal nic or a bridge interface or some other complex, abstract thing (with ipv4 and ipv6 support)) and figures out what it should do based on a plethora of directives in /etc/conf.d/net.

Like right now, I've got a bridge interface on my Gentoo box, but to run it I made a copy of the init.d script and put a couple bridging commands in there.  It'd be cleaner if I could just inform it about bridging information in /etc/conf.d/net and the init script would understand and do it.

On Sat, 31 May 2003 23:29:27 -0400
Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I really prefer the first method, as it provides much finer grained
> control. I've got a net6.ethX script mostly done, but i wanted to get
> some feedback and opinions before fully implementing. The one major
> sticking point is how to deal with the current "do something or die and
> bring the interface down" situation. This behavior would obviously have
> to change.
> 
> -pete
> 
> 
> -- 
> Peter Johanson
> <latexer@gentoo.org>
> 


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