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| author | William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2011-11-15 17:06:10 -0600 |
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| committer | William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> | 2011-11-16 13:29:52 -0600 |
| commit | 5994e55937cbbb71b1c22ad829b77a1bcd8c3793 (patch) | |
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| parent | 3f2e9c4e1fa5587ec4f7ff07fbc5b5066c2d281e (diff) | |
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Deprecate the network and staticroute scripts
These scripts are not supported, and they have several major design
issues such as not being able to stop, start or allow a dependency on a
single interface.
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diff --git a/README.newnet b/README.newnet deleted file mode 100644 index 2e157e2..0000000 --- a/README.newnet +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -The following applies only to the newnet stack, which is not presently -maintained in OpenRC. The oldnet stack is maintained instead. -- Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>, 2011/02/21 - -OpenRC Network Ideals ---------------------- - -The new style networking for OpenRC is very simplistic - provide a basic means -of configuring static interface address and routes whilst allowing the -possibility to run any command at any point. - -In a nutshell, init.d/network is a wrapper around ifconfig(8) and -init.d/staticroute is wrapper around route(8). - -In the Perfect World (TM) ifconfig should be able to configure everything -about the interface easily * . The BSD family almost get this right and Linux -epically fails. - -* Only static configuration, including link setup. -For dynamic, static, IPv4LL, arping and per ssid IPv4 setup dhcpcd-5.x -provides your needs. - -It fails because there are many tools to do the same job and often have -vastly different syntax where they could be similar. In other words, there -is no coherence. - -OpenRC-0.4.x and older (inc Gentoo baselayout-1) had a collection of scripts -for each tool and allowed a script per interface. Over the years, this design -has proven very hard to maintain as each user has their own idea of how -things should work. Also, there were (and still are) race conditions. - -So where do we go from here? -Well, it's possible to use the new network scripts using the tools -currently available. It's just harder as you have to know them and their -documentation can be lacking at times. -The correct end goal is a BSD style ifconfig tool. -I've started work on it, but the project has stalled somewhat. -It's display only right now and the source is not yet publicly available. -If you have the skills and share the vision then contact me privately and -we'll take it from there. |