From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAF9138010 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39CDF21C01F; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF2CE0710 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.145] (CPE002401f30b73-CM001cea3ddad8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.240.69.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 67BE233C878 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <505083BE.60305@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:44:46 -0400 From: Ian Stakenvicius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.6esrpre) Gecko/20120731 Thunderbird/10.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: netplugd and ifplugd support in OpenRc References: <20120910144832.GA22292@linux1> <1347308770.2027.1.camel@TesterTop4> <20120910210518.GA26213@linux1> <504F7C61.1030508@gentoo.org> <1347388988.2027.31.camel@TesterTop4> <20120911210112.GA534@linux1> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a403994a-0eb5-4cb8-ba91-927c25d6ff27 X-Archives-Hash: d358a2979922e718fd21794a6b9d54c1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/09/12 06:23 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> >> I can agree that a server would probably want a static >> configuration, but all work stations do not use gnome, kde, etc. >> > > Most do not run unix, but at work I can't think of any servers > that are using static configurations. They might be assigned > static IPs, but they'll use DHCP just the same. > > I deploy my network at home in the same way - most of my standing > PCs have DNS and static IP assignments, but they still use DHCP. > This way I can still utilize PXE for backups/etc, and adjust things > at any time fairly easily. > > Rich > Some of my servers have a back-end nic that has static config defined, and i use netplug or ifplugd for that to bring the iface up and down based on link -- link detection != auto-configuration, imo. Suffice to say, networkmanager is not a reasonable means to determine link state for oldnet. Newnet, well, all of that gets handled outside of openrc's config anyhow so... But this is getting a little beyond the original point of the thread.. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlBQg74ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPAL5gEArhYn4Zzas8k6ijddwP9F4q+F 95hFTjw9h0lp0nIrrDIA/R6twsmCnPt1T7yYN6jr0ZcjBonZgI+pk3TZS9qnLa/U =dJUq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----