William Hubbs dixit (2010-09-20, 11:16): > I want to start a new thread since the discussion on openrc is > centering on whether we should use oldnet, newnet, or keep both. > > 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. > > The thing I do not like about oldnet is the way it handles wifi and > dynamic interfaces by running dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant on each > interface instead of running a global instance of them so that they > can control the interfaces themselves. > > On my laptop, I have net.lo in the boot runlevel, and I start > wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd in the default runlevel. In that setup, > there is no need for any net.wlan* interface scriptss, because > dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant manage everything.
Does that support configurations where I set static addresses (including ipv6) and routes (also including ipv6) based on the SSID as is allowed by the oldnet scheme of things? I (and probably lots other “power users”) rely on those features extensively and I thank whoever came up with the idea of actually configuring that in a pretty simple way (compared to other distros and OS'es where it is more complicated or plain impossible sometimes). Best, -- [a]
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