Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2012/11/26 22:24, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > [...]
After some further reflection, I think I agree with sthen. > I am "mostly" happy with hostname.if, but I would find it useful > to have a nicer syntax that allows ignoring other parsing and > feeds the line directly to ifconfig <interface>. In sample config > files posted in various places I have often seen people abuse "up" > for this but that's no good, I don't want the interface up half-way > through config. Yes, yes. > If there are no changes to the parser then I think it would help > to be explicit in the manual, > > "The packed format is not compatible with the ifconfig(8) > command line format. > > To pass a line directly to ifconfig and prevent it from being > interpreted as a packed format, use !ifconfig \$if <flags>." Yes. > (I think I may change my files to "!ifconfig ..." format > now, it's ugly but it will avoid errors; not least because > then I can use /prefix notation rather than netmasks). Yes. I'm switching to !ifconfig for everything but trivial addresses. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
