Re: Resolvconf -- suggested reading before installing this :-)

[Thomas Hood]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 23:53, Osamu Aoki wrote: 
 Whomever interested on this subject, Thomas' network set up tutorial
 (draft) is available as 10 Network configuration:
 
   http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html

 (Yes, he is rewriting my old small section with whole new section with
  very good overview.  Please tell Thomas about any problem in 10.1-10.8.
  Please understand this is on-going update.)

Thanks to Osamu for mentioning this.  Emphasis on the on-going.
I would appreciate help, including proof reading.  

The Debian Reference promises to fill the gap between HOWTO and
how-to-do-it-in-Debian.

Before starting to work on DR chapter 10 I checked to see what
else was available.  To my surprise I found an assortment of
documents besides the familiar Installation Manual and Release
Notes:

  * Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
  * [formerly Progeny] User's Guide
  * [dwarf's] Debian Linux User's Guide
  * Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage
  * Debian Tutorial
  * Debian User Reference Manual
  * Debian System Administrator's Manual
  * Debian Network Administrator's Manual

Links to all of these can be found at 
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#users-guide
along with commentary on their contents and status.

The FAQ seems to be up to date and maintained.  The three
user's guides look complete but more or less out of date.
The rest appear to be incomplete.  If there are newer versions
of any of these floating around that aren't available via the
link above then I would appreciate someone sending me a URL.

For DR ch.10 I have been consulting chapters 3 and 8 of the
Debian Network Administrator's Manual by Duncan C Thomson and
Ivan E. Moore II.  I really should drop those guys a line ...

-- 
Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Resolvconf -- suggested reading before installing this :-)

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:20:47PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:49:28 +0200, Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 
 
  Manoj wrote:
   I would be interested in knowing how you set it up equivalent to
   cardctl scheme allows me to set up pcmcia networks.
 
  cardmgr's system of configuring things dependently upon
  scheme,socket,instance,hwaddr is quite powerful but it is possible
  to configure interfaces dependently on these variables using
  ifupdown too (... though not so conveniently).  See below.
 
   One can also modify  /etc/pcmcia/network; line 109:
 
   cat $RESOLV  $RESOLV.N; mv $RESOLV.N $RESOLV
   cat $RESOLV  $RESOLV.N; resolvconf -a $DEVICE  $RESOLV.N
 
   Anyway, I think I am goinf to use start_fn and stop_fn in
  /etc/pcmcia/network.opts instead of using either hotplug or modifying
  /etc/pcmcia/network;  I am already comfortable with my network.opts,
  and it is all working together very nicely now.

I still use start_fn and stop_fn on my old note PC.  But as I read
Thomas' tutorial on dynamic DEBIAN network configuration, centralizing
configuration around /etc/network/interfaces as he proposes seems to
provide cleaner environment.

AJ's ifupdown package is quite interesting and very debian specific.
There were not much tutorials on this subject and many conventional
configuration procedures tend to cause some trouble with ifupdown if
they are not deployed very carefully.  Although he provide source to
make detailed source documentation, this key package practically comes
in very cryptic and short user manual page only. 

Whomever interested on this subject, Thomas' network set up tutorial
(draft) is available as 10 Network configuration:

  http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
   or
  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html (older)

(Yes, he is rewriting my old small section with whole new section with
 very good overview.  Please tell Thomas about any problem in 10.1-10.8.
 Please understand this is on-going update.)

Osamu