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  • From: Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Different network provider
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:06:54 -0400

On 2008-01-23 21:33:35, David Kowis wrote:
> 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

I like the idea, however, why not make it NOT a clone of our grimoire? and
that its also clonable... patches and tarballs are not sexy :/

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Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>
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