On Mon, 11 May 2015 09:29:43 +0200, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: >On Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:18 +1000, Russell Stuart ><russell-deb...@stuart.id.au> wrote: >>I get the distinct feeling some people posting here consider ifup/down >>"old fashioned". Granted it doesn't have a nice GUI, but from the point >>of view of someone who deploys lots of similar machines a GUI of any >>sort is a negative, and it has a far nicer property - it is easily >>scriptable. > >ifupdown _is_ scriptable.
Eh, it _is_ old-fashioned, I wanted to write. >For example, it doesn't know dependencies >between Interfaces, which is rather common for a server jockey >(consider a VLAN on a bridge which is connected to the network via a >bonding device), and it doesn't handle IP addresses that come and go >at run time (as it is to be expected on IPv6 networks). Greetings Ma "need more coffee" rc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1yrikp-0007cn...@swivel.zugschlus.de
