-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Straight wrote: > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 01:37 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Actually ifplugd turned out to be the accidednt waiting to happen. I have > rc.local setup with the sysctl since the sysctl.conf never seems to work > right on that - I think it must do that before ifup, so the devs aren't there > to configure. > Really, if you need to do anything in rc.local, you need to consider whether this is robust enough, especially with networking, where provisions are made for ensuring that you can do it right easily (see /usr/share/doc/inistscrpts*/sysconfig.txt You are assuming that network devices will only be started at boot ... so I hope you have this documented in case someone else needs to take an interface down ... > On 2 of the machines they have special routing which is added by a separate > script I wrote also run from rc.local. Actual routing tables for different > networks and load balancing using iproute2 utils. > :( > Since we have an MNF, which also restarts interfaces on occasion when you do certain things from the UI, and we have static routes, we learnt to do it the right way ... Anyway, what really needs to happen is to have config tools which can do this kind of thing for you, preferably also usable on the console. Maybe libconf will help here (the UI I have seen so far for network stuff covers quite a lot of aspects already). Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+3j0ArJK6UGDSBKcRAsyaAKDBmIkKXQakXBgVe4dQtKDfkcmYQQCfV/cB grZkqYBPvQF8yWS8RDnR67M= =bVKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
