Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: only the loopback interface should provide net

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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All,

after discussions with several devs on irc about this issue, the
following change has been made in openrc-0.9.9 which was just released:

The loopback interface provides lo and *NOT* net.
All other network interfaces provide net.

For the categories given, this means the following:

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:15:13PM -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> 1. Services that connect to remote machines via any available network
> interface.

These should use or need net.

> 2. Services that listen to connections from remote machines on any
> available network interface, and run correctly even if no non-lo
> interfaces are up.

These should be changed to use or need lo.

> 3. Services that require a specific network interface, bind to a
> specific address, or connect to a specific machine on the local subnet.

These will have to be configured by the user with something like:

rc_use/need="!net net.iface"

Thanks,

William


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