On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:18 +1000, Russell Stuart <russell-deb...@stuart.id.au> wrote: >I get the distinct feeling some people posting here consider ifup/down >"old fashioned". Granted it doesn't have a nice GUI, but from the point >of view of someone who deploys lots of similar machines a GUI of any >sort is a negative, and it has a far nicer property - it is easily >scriptable.
ifupdown _is_ scriptable. For example, it doesn't know dependencies between Interfaces, which is rather common for a server jockey (consider a VLAN on a bridge which is connected to the network via a bonding device), and it doesn't handle IP addresses that come and go at run time (as it is to be expected on IPv6 networks). And, when it comes to scriptability and flexiblity, systemd-networkd is vastly superior. It was made with a server in mind. Otoh, it is much harder to debug, extend and modify than ifupdown, which has a _very_ flexible script interface. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1yri9n-0006om...@swivel.zugschlus.de
