On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Horms wrote: > Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2006-08-10T14:27:20, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Though I'd suspect that majority of HB based clusters run on > >> Linux, I didn't find IPaddr2 very popular (at least judging by > >> the lists). > > > > Most of them probably don't even know about it. Which adds quite nicely > > to the point I was making: On Linux, we should use IPaddr2 by default, > > or at least the methods used therein, instead of the ifconfig mess, > > which is positively ancient and requires us to jump through hoops (and > > isn't very robust). > > Yes, I agree. I think that many people simply don't use it because > its not the default. I bet if it was very few of them would complain. > And a lot of nice things would suddenlty just work.
On the recent "janitor" thread, this topic also made a little appearance. I suggested, and Andrew agreed, that it would be preferable to have a single name "IPaddr" which 'does the Right Thing' across all OSes. It would be very poor to have to document something horrible such as: "on OS-1 do X; but on OS-2 do Y; however on OS-3 do Z; ..." As I understand it, then, there would be a single command (say, "IPaddr") but whose Linux functionality (which "IPaddr" would detect early) would use code from the current "IPaddr2" implementation. Put another way: logically merge "IPaddr" and "IPaddr2" under a single banner "IPaddr", such that the ex-...2 code paths are the default the Linux. OK? -- : David Lee I.T. Service : : Senior Systems Programmer Computer Centre : : Durham University : : http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.d.lee/ South Road : : Durham DH1 3LE : : Phone: +44 191 334 2752 U.K. : _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
