Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At the same time, we believe that most packages using net-tools
should
be patched to use iproute instead, while others can continue using the
wrappers for some time. The ifupdown package is obviously the first
candidate, but it seems that a version using iproute has been available
in experimental since 2007.
Maybe this is the wrong place, but is iproute going to honor
USERCTL="yes" in the ifcfg scripts? It seems it currently doesn't
whereas ifup/ifdown do:
% grep USERCTL /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em2
USERCTL="yes"
% ip link set em2 down
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
--Ben