Subject: Re: /sbin/ifup
To: NetBSD Networking Technical Discussion List <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/13/2003 15:54:53
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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <woods@weird.com> writes:
    Greg> So, what you (and no doubt many other users) really need is some
    Greg> way to 
    Greg> selectively do certain operations on one interface without
    Greg> necessarily 
    Greg> affecting all the other interfaces.  I.e. to do some of the things

  Right on.

    Greg> I think the first feature is relatively easy to implement directly in
    Greg> the rc.d script just by adding some custom parameters to it.  I think
    Greg> doing it directly in /etc/rc.d/network would be better than having a
    Greg> separate /sbin/if* script(s).

  Yes, that's true.
  The reason I named the script /sbin/ifup, is because I'm mostly converting
Linux admin's to NetBSD, and this gives them a warm fuzzy :-)

  We've already done this on our routers. The question was - is this
generally useful. There is no real precedent here, except for Linux.

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