Craig Small wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:32:37AM +0200, Jens David wrote:
> > But still I thing this is solely the distro�s problem. Applications and
> > tools should never read such a file directly or via libax25. They should
> > use the socket interface as all other protocol families also do.
> So pretty much any configuration tools has it values on the command line
> like ifconfig or /sbin/ip and any daemons or other things use
> /proc/sys/net/ax25/<something> or an ioctl?
>
> Sounds ok to me.
As I view it we need a script/program/whatever that parses that XML config
file on bootup and calls the relevant tools/daemons/whatever unsing the
data contained in the config file to pass it in a formatted way along
as command line parameters. Or even better, we should extend the proc/sys
tree in order to make most utilities unneccessary as Joerg pointed out.
> Actually can't we just add an address family to /sbin/ip ?
We should, that�s another thing on the to do list. Ifconfig supports
AX.25 hwaddresses, ip did not last time I checked.
-- Jens
