On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Archaic wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:32:56PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> It was done intentionally. I was not aware that anyone had ever used a >>> file named ifconfig.interface and this was not documented anywhere. I >>> removed it because it simply because it was one more test case in ifup >>> and ifdown. I could certainly put it back. >> >> The file feature was added because 99% of the cases you are setting up >> one IP for one interface. Redhat was likely an inspiration for it since >> it is very similar to theirs, but it has been so long ago I can't >> remember what exactly we were thinking. :) The directory feature is >> actually the corner case for specifying multiple configurations for a >> single interface. > > You are right. That's the way I remember it too. I never liked it > though. A single file that is edited would be better for LFS. > > The system is designed so a distribution package manager can just drop > in files. That's easier for a distro, but harder for a person to > understand. > > -- Bruce
The original setup, was ifconfig.eth0 as a file, that can configure static ip addresses. After that, I moved us to the services option, so LFS would support more then a static IPV4 address. Once that was setup, I wanted to allow us to use more then 1 service script at once. At the time, I wanted to seperate the "add ip address" functionality from the routing, and then ipv4-static-route was born. (In hindsight, setting the GATEWAY in the ipv4-static script was more convienent then two files, but still useful if you want to setup static routing). On my own, I use a custom bridge script, (creates the interface from x number of interfaces), and add 2 static ip's. 3 files. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
