You make some good points. I'll answer your questions as best as I can, but we can consider this thread closed. I will not try to put the virtual in, but I will come back to the list soon and start another thread.
In a nutshell, our networking is a beast, and we should try to simplify it some how imo. I'll write out my thoughts about that when I start the other thread. On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:24:10AM -0600, mingdao wrote: > (1) What is "the new network stack" provided by the newnet USE flag? That consists of the network and staticroute scripts which are part of OpenRC. The network script sets up interfaces and configures static addresses only; it will allow you to run any command at any point in the process of doing this. What some people on Gentoo do not like about it is it is all or nothing. You can't start/stop/depend on a single interface. The staticroute script is used to configure multiple static routes once the network script has set up the static addresses. > (2) Why is dhcpcd referred to as a "network manager" in the same context as > wicd, networkmanager, connman, etc? In the sense that dhcpcd is not sufficient > for security protected wireless alone, as is, say, wicd; and is not a > replacement for true "network manager" apps. DHCP client != network manager > app This is a good point, so I will drop putting dhcpcd on the list. > (3) Is udhcpc provided by busybox not sufficient in lieu of dhcpcd for > stage3? I think udhcpc is what you get in stage 3; if dhcpcd is there, I have no idea how it is getting there. William
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