Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
...
> 
> > No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ...
> 
> Why is this nightmare anything to do with Gentoo? If you connect to
> networks that require manual configuration, you have to configure
> manually. At least the functions in conf.d/net allow you to automate a
> substantial part of the process.
> 
> Take a close look at /etc/conf.d/net.example, I think you'll find it can
> do most, if not all, of what you want.
> 
> 
The nightmare is that gentoo will only handle a small subset of the
networks I need to connect to at any one time (i.e., I cant configure
all the networks in the one set of config files - see my original post
for the permutations).  I cant see that gentoo's method will allow me to
handle all the permutations without having scripts to reconfigure it at
each site by copying in new files and restarting services/vpn's and
athentications depending on what is required at each site.  The reason I
posted this originally is that the above process keeping separate
configs has been working for years (inc. when I was using Mandrake) and
I am happy to keep doing that - however something in gentoo's latest
baselayout breaks things like zebedee and openvpn (flakey on start/stop)
in this scenario.

BillK

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