On Fri, 17 14:18 , Stuart Henderson wrote: > I only see this as being marginally useful as-is. Why would you > want to configure every network interface individually? You might > as well just use a separate script in that case.
The use case is to have a default configuration of a wireless interface, call it /etc/hostname.athn0. Apart from that, there's a number of places where a different wifi configuration is necessary, call them /etc/hostname.athn0.apX. Being at one of these places, typing "sh /etc/netstart athn0.apX" suffices to have a working setup. I can of course wrap nearly everything into some script, doing one and the same thing over and over again (or script the scripting). However avoiding additional overhead by applying a change once is just the idea of the patch. But it doesn't really sound like this idea is attractive to anyone. > I'd rather have an option to specify this be used for *all* > hostname.if files so you could "sh /etc/netstart -s mobile" etc. > > Or maybe easier to have "netstart -d /etc/net/home" etc to look in > a different directory (though this has implications for /etc/security > and changelist). > > With either of these, it would probably make sense to add "netstart_flags" > support to rc.conf/rc as well. The latter might be a proper solution as well, but is not as minimally invasive as intended. All the best, /Markus
