On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:17:48PM +0100, nodata wrote:
On 25/11/10 17:24, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>
> Presenting wicked network configuration
> =======================================
>
> This is the first public release of wicked, an experimental framework
> for network configuration.
>
> You may ask, don't we have enough of those already? Don't we have
> NetworkManager, connman, netcf, and a few more?
making a list of those is already an achievement :)
> The point I started from was the desire to unify what is usually
provided
> through the traditional ifup script kudzu, with some of the more desktop
> oriented services provided by facilities like NetworkManager. I also
> wanted to move towards a more powerful set of functionality written in
> C, which is able to subsume functionality provided by ifconfig, ip(8),
> brctl, vconfig, ethtool, etc, and be able to drive these through an
> extensible XML representation of the network configuration.
XML? *cries*
How about a nice simple file? ;)
seconded. Or JSON if something fancy is desperately needed.
Richard