[SM-Discuss] Different network provider

David Kowis dkowis at shlrm.org
Wed Jan 23 22:33:35 EST 2008


http://shlrm.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=grimoire/.git;a=summary

So I've spent some time replacing our network script system with the
same one that debian uses.
My reasoning is that it's more flexible and does more.

It doesn't require a great deal of knowledge to configure, and all the
man pages are included.

It greatly simplifies the init script as it replaces the start and stop
methods with ifup -a and ifdown -a

It's worked just fine for me in my xen vm, rebooted and I still had a
dhcp interface ;)

I'd like for you guys opinion on this, and perhaps we could integrate
it. The one time upgrade cost of it might be a bit high, but not really.
As the average user's interface is simply:

auto lo eth0

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp


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