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["Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>]

Casey

How progresses this work?

I didn't see any replies to your question about mtu.
As far as I am aware the value needs to be between 0 and 1500 inclusive
(although 0
won't get you very far).

I have noticed that the latest version of network.sh seems to only call ifup
for a static
connection. How will your new variables be called into play?

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Casey Harkins" <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
To: "Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>
Cc: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Network device config file format update


>
>
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > The new system for configuring network devices is in the devel grimoire
> > now. Please try it out, I'm sure there are a few bugs.
>
> The /etc/init.d/runlevels/%3/network script (at least in the test
> grimoire) needs an 'export' before _OBEY_UP_ON_BOOT=1, or the ifup script
> doesn't see the variable being set. I can file a bug for this when I get
> into the office.
>
> > UP_ON_BOOT - If set to "no" then the device will not be brought up
> >                 automatically during boot. Anything else than "no" is
> >                 considered as an "yes".
> > MTU - A number specifying the Maximum Transfer Unit. Can be empty.
> > POINTOPOINT - The address used for point-to-point mode. Can be empty.
>
> I'm going to add options for these into the netconf program. UP_ON_BOOT
> will just be a checkbox (defaulting to yes), MTU and POINTTOPOINT will
> default to being empty. Is there a valid range for MTU or can it be set to
> any positive integer? I'd like to have a bit of sanity checking so people
> don't set MTU to 'foo'.
>
> > The following functions can be created in the config file. None of them
> > take any arguments.
> >
> > do_device_up, do_device_down
> >         Overrides what normally is a call to ifconfig or dhcpcd.
> >
> > do_route_up, do_route_down
> >         Allows overriding of default call to the route command.
> >
> > do_status
> >         Overrides the default text printed for this device when doing
> >         "telinit run network status".
> >
> > on_up, on_down
> >         Run when device has been successfully been brought up and down
> >         respectively.
>
>
> I'm going to leave these out of netconf, but it will leave the functions
> intact if they exist in a network device file. This will allow netconf to
> edit the other options without destroying the custom functions.
>
> On a side note, I'm going to test out ifplugd for managing my ethernet
> connections on my laptop. It looks pretty handy! I'll submit a spell when
> I've tested it out.
>
> -casey
>
>
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