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

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 01 June 2003 06:29, Peter Johanson wrote:
> hey all,
>
> i've started doing a lot of work on IPv6 stuff in gentoo, to try to get
> us up to snuff with regards to IPv6 support. I've been commiting a lot
> more ebuilds for various things, and more are to come. BUT, an important
> aspect needs fixing.
>
> init scripts.
>
> The problem is we need better control of configuring both the IPv4 and
> the IPv6 attributes of an interface. Specifically, we want IPv6 services
> to start if IPv4 networking fails and vice versa.
>
> Along with that, we also need some initscript control over establishing
> tunnels, etc. That issue will be better tackled i think after we have a
> solid general device configuration in place.

I hope what you mean by that is also nice initscripts for pptp and pppoe. Even 
if they basically just let you specify the command line from conf.d, it's 
still something. I've been wondering why we don't have them...

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key

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