Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) Should the syntax for this documented in the package somewhere? I try to keep the docs/ syntax as updated as possible. Are there official webpages for projects? other than projects.archlinux.org? Rémy. The wiki[1] was the official how to use netcfg documentation, while docs/ generally covered the syntax. Regards, James [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
[arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add configuration file /etc/conf.d/netcfg for net-auto-wireless - add support for restricting automatic startup of profiles (FS#23169) - bridge: add support for several brctl options (FS#16625) - wireless: add support for explicit BSSID (FS#24582) - wireless: add support for ad-hoc connections (FS#19683) - wireless: no longer require wireless_tools to work - use /run instead of /var/run - drops hard dependency on net-tools package - drops hard dependency on wireless_tools package Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) - IPv6 is supported: no address configuration (even auto-configuration) will be done unless you say IP6=something in your profile. See the examples to see how it works - dhclient is needed if you want to support DHCPv6: this is expected to be an uncommon case, since auto-configuration exists. - netcfg can create tun/tap interfaces: it currently does not do anything with these (FS#15049) Regards, -- Rémy.
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Sun 19 June 2011 at 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged Also, the none-old and wep-old SECURITY modes are no longer supported. They are now aliases to the wpa_supplicant bases none and wep. -- Rémy.
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 04:23:45 PM Rémy Oudompheng wrote: Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add configuration file /etc/conf.d/netcfg for net-auto-wireless - add support for restricting automatic startup of profiles (FS#23169) - bridge: add support for several brctl options (FS#16625) - wireless: add support for explicit BSSID (FS#24582) - wireless: add support for ad-hoc connections (FS#19683) - wireless: no longer require wireless_tools to work - use /run instead of /var/run - drops hard dependency on net-tools package - drops hard dependency on wireless_tools package Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) - IPv6 is supported: no address configuration (even auto-configuration) will be done unless you say IP6=something in your profile. See the examples to see how it works - dhclient is needed if you want to support DHCPv6: this is expected to be an uncommon case, since auto-configuration exists. - netcfg can create tun/tap interfaces: it currently does not do anything with these (FS#15049) Regards, I'd like a minor clarification here... I've never seen a directory called run on /. Is netcfg expected to create that? Does the FHS support that?
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Yaro Kasear y...@marupa.net wrote: I'd like a minor clarification here... I've never seen a directory called run on /. Is netcfg expected to create that? No. /run is maintained by mkinitcfg/initscripts/filesystem. It is a tmpfs mounted directory that is guaranteed to be writable from the initramfs until shutdown. In the long-run it is meant to take the place of /var/run (you can actually symlink /var/run to /run now and everything works). For more details see: https://lwn.net/Articles/436012/. Does the FHS support that? Yes. Distributions are free to add root-level directories; individual applications are not. /run was first proposed by debian and is currently (to the best of my knowledge) endorsed by at least suse, fedora and ubuntu. I believe it has also been proposed for inclusion in the new FHS. Cheers, Tom
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On 2011/6/19 Rémy Oudompheng remyoudomph...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. Due to a small bug in net-auto-wireless, the version is now 2.6.1. Additionally some basic configuration of tun/tap interfaces is now possible. Rémy.
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) Should the syntax for this documented in the package somewhere?
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) Should the syntax for this documented in the package somewhere? I try to keep the docs/ syntax as updated as possible. Are there official webpages for projects? other than projects.archlinux.org? Rémy.
Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
On Mon 20 Jun 2011 03:34 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: On 2011/6/20 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 19 Jun 2011 23:23 +0200, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) Should the syntax for this documented in the package somewhere? I try to keep the docs/ syntax as updated as possible. Are there official webpages for projects? other than projects.archlinux.org? There's a page for pacman [1], but I don't know if there's any specific infrastructure for project pages. You will probably have to ask the admins for a space to put pages. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
