From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQ1Dl-0002rM-Lo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:30:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8KCTVOb004192; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:29:31 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony5.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8KCMvko019250 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:22:59 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.216.240]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2006 20:22:29 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,190,1157299200"; d="scan'208"; a="927017131:sNHT1012693454" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB9B101A91 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:35 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2DZ09d4+L1lN for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from rattus (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4293CAF1E for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:25 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly? From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060920084524.1004ea78@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <1158706691.19961.17.camel@bunyip> <20060920010521.40cf553f@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <1158716891.19961.25.camel@localhost> <20060920084524.1004ea78@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:21:25 +0800 Message-Id: <1158754885.14008.33.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9d2a59d-9e56-4a30-aaf5-0ec60033cd77 X-Archives-Hash: ef2811749562f8ee6fcf7584fc48384b 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 -- William Kenworthy Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list