Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:14:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, peter@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.network src/etc/defaults rc.conf Message-ID: <199907071414.QAA25653@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199907071629.JAA38447@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 7, 99 09:29:05 am
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> > > Modified files: > > > etc rc.network > > > etc/defaults rc.conf i second the criticism, but see some advantages in using `ifconfig -l` in many many cases (e.g. diskless setups, bootable CDROM and other media that might be moved/used by different systems, and maybe the install scripts as well), especially if one also provides a variable like ifconfig_default that is not tied to a specific interface, but instead is used for the first network interface listed by ifconfig -l ). In light of this, wouldn't it be a better solution to keep the variable network_interfaces alive, use `ifconfig -l` in rc.network only when network_interfaces is set to some special value (e.g. "automatic" or so), and set it to this special value in /etc/defaults/rc.conf This would handle the vast majority of cases leaving full backward compatibility eg. for install scripts and users with special configurations. As for the special value, rc.conf generally uses "NO" when a variable must be interpreted in a special way, so one could just use the empty string to mean we want to use `ifconfig -l`. But again for backward compatibility i guess that some people might depend on network_interfaces being set to the empty string and this is why i suggest a different value. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ ==== First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication ==== -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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