Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.7 Severity: wishlist See bug 354933 for more information, but the way the interfaces file allows multiple interface stanzas (inet, inet6, ipx) with different protocols breaks vlan and possibly bridge interfaces scripts if you try and configure the same interface twice (eg once with inet, once with inet6).
What I would like to propose is that the interfaces file be changed so that (optionally) the protocol setup is broken out of the interface setup. An example might look like: auto eth0 iface eth0 auto vlan2 iface vlan2 vlan-raw-device eth0 auto br0 iface br0 bridge_ports eth2 eth3 proto eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 proto eth0 inet6 static address 3ff0:1::1 netmask 64 proto vlan1 inet static address 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 proto vlan1 inet6 static address 3ff0:2::1 netmask 64 proto br0 inet static address 192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 Would a patch to allow the above be accepted? assuming that it allowed the previous config method still and so didn't break any current setups? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.70 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii net-tools 1.60-17 The NET-3 networking toolkit ifupdown recommends no packages. -- debconf information: ifupdown/convert-interfaces: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
