On 07/27/2009 02:39 PM, Jon Sabo wrote:
I want to add some fields to allow for configuring ipv6 network
interfaces. Following the learn to hack week I was able to get that
working. I just started working on the post_install_network_config
snippet to see if I can get it to configure the interface
configuration files as I would like. I realize I need to get that
done before the patch would be accepted but I wanted to email this to
list to get opinions on names and see if I'm remotely close to
something acceptable. Opinions on names for things like MTU vs max
transmission unit. Oh yeah so this isn't just the ipv6 interface
fields I added ipv4 MTU field too but I think that's it. I took the
field names directly from the redhat stanzas used to configure the
interfaces on my boxes so don't kill me if things like ipv6
secondaries makes no sense outside of Redhat. The thing that's new
with ipv6 (for me anyway) is that an interface name such as eth0 can
have more than one ip address. The
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-blah/sysconfig.txt files make a distinction
between IPV6ADDRESS and IPV6SECONDARIES so I did too. I'm not 100%
sure of it's significance. Anyway hopefully this doesn't completely suck.
With Love,
Jonathan Sabo
I'd do things like default_gateway versus defaultgw, just to make things
clear and consistent, but otherwise looks fine to me. mtu seems fine
as that's what everyone calls it and it saves typing.
I'm a bit curious as to what the autoconf setting does?
Thanks!
Michael