Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Sonntag 17 Februar 2008 schrieb namnd: In this case, the configuration is as easy as: interface name=fpt1 type=ppp   ppp type=pppoe options= depend_on=tap1 username=*** password=***/   network id=11 name=FPT1 auto=1/ /interface The ppp stanza should not contain authentication

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:20:48PM +0700, namnd wrote: * The configuration file is in XML so netupdown can handle sophisticated configuration. Editing the XML the configuration by hand or by software will be easy and comfortable. Forgive me, but yeah right! Have you ever actually edited

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread namnd
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: * The configuration file is in XML so netupdown can handle sophisticated configuration. Editing the XML the configuration by hand or by software will be easy and comfortable. Forgive me, but yeah right! Have you ever actually edited XML by hand? Try tweaking a

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:20:48PM +0700, namnd wrote: * The configuration file is in XML so netupdown can handle sophisticated configuration. Editing the XML the configuration by hand or by software will be easy and comfortable. Editing XML by hand easy and comfortable?!? In which world?

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread namnd
Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Sonntag 17 Februar 2008 schrieb namnd: In this case, the configuration is as easy as: interface name=fpt1 type=ppp ppp type=pppoe options= depend_on=tap1 username=*** password=***/ network id=11 name=FPT1 auto=1/ /interface The ppp stanza should not contain

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread namnd
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: It is part of the base system. And people will have to manipulate it even when the web interface is not available. Think of using globs and stats. Also think of creative usages of symlinks. Well, I guess that it is up to me to think (demonstrate fisibility) here. Otherwise

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Brian May
namnd == namnd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: namnd To be short, I consider my software an evolution of ifupdown, so the namnd main part is called netupdown, the purpose of this software is to namnd use on corporate internet gateway, the main features of the software: Have you looked

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach namnd [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.17.1720 +0100]: My team have been developing a software for my company since 2004, now I have plan to release it to the public, hopefully in an open source license if the management board doesn't object. So I need the peer reviews from the

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread namnd
Hello Martin, Hello Nam, I am the author of netconf (http://netconf.alioth.debian.org), which Brian has already introduced in another post to this thread. I am very interested in your work because all the issues you highlight in your mail are core to my motivations for writing netconf. You are

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun, 2008-02-18 at 06:49 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: You are asking us to evaluate the quality of a software based only on the descriptions you provide. There was a link to the source code in the initial mail too. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.18.0843 +0100]: I really want to look at it, even though I am bad at Perl. Please try to release it. I am tempted to ask you to show it to me beforehand under a non-disclosure agreement, but then I might have difficulty keeping netconf

Re: Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

2008-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach namnd [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.18.0750 +0100]: - I have posted a full example of internal state on the first email. Runtime state contains info about interfaces, about networks running on those interfaces, routes running on those networks, and multipath routes using the