Todd T. Fries <t...@fries.net> wrote: > If there are desires to improve this (I hear Naddy grumbling!) then the > stomach to break backwards compat must be present, or suggestions on how > to do it without breaking backwards compat must be suggested.
My suggestion is two-fold: * Introduce a new format. This new format will ignore # comments, call ! commands, but otherwise pass on everything unchanged to ifconfig. I'm neutral on the matter of retaining "dhcp" and "rtsol" as shortcuts for "!dhclient \$if" and "!rtsol \$if". * To maintain backward compatibility, retain the old parsing for hostname.* files. Interface configuration files in the new format will have a different name; if.* or whatever. Does that sound workable? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
