On Friday 10 November 2006 22:32, Michael Biebl wrote: > Well, that is the point. You are talking about "functionality that we > discussed" and I have no clue, what you exactly mean by that. Please > give me examples and use cases, what exactly you are expecting. > > In your first email, you gave me two examples (VPN and iptables rules) > which I tried to explain is already possible to be handled within NM. > The first, with the mentioned VPN plugins and the second via > NetworkManagerDispatcher.
You mentioned /etc/netword/if-*.d/ folder to be used for all pre/post
processing work.
But consider this scenario.
iface eth0office inet dhcp
up /sbin/iptables -SOME -RULE
down /sbin/iptables -D -SOME -RULE
iface eth0home inet dhcp
up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
down echo 0 > proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iface .....
Is this doable in /etc/network/if-*.d/ ?
From my understanding, I don't think so.
I like these kind of settings because it allows me to configure my each
individual network device on a scenario basis.
This is exactly what other network management tools (Windows, Mac) do
similarly.
I did some finding and found a tool which does something similar. It is called
netGo (http://netgo.hjolug.org/). It does similar things but doesn't have the
intelligence to do auto-probes, like NM.
I'll start investigating it after this email. But AFAIK, it doesn't use
ifupdown.
Probably netGo + Auto Probing + ifupdown support will be equivalent to what
other operating systems provide.
Thanks,
Ritesh
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