On Monday, September 20, 2010 13:21:25 Michał Górny wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:16:08 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > The drawback I see for newnet is that it does not allow the user to > > control each interface separately, so if you want to cycle one > > interface for some reason, this is not doable in that setup. I agree > > this is a serious drawback. Oldnet addresses this by having a > > separate script for each interface. > > That's not entirely true. If you use DHCP indeed, 'cycling' a single > interface is as simple as: > > $ ifconfig eth0 down > [...] > $ ifconfig eth0 up
relying on DHCP isnt an acceptable solution which means there is no safe way to "reset" a single interface. from a maintainer/general pov, William's statement is "true enough". -mike
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