On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:33:52PM +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
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
iproute has no way to honor such things. It is a low level tool that
doesn't read configuration files, do privilege escalation to be able
to perform system level tasks as a normal user, etc. iproute compares
to ifconfig and route, not ifup/ifdown.