[netcf-devel] New to netcf - lots of questions

James Masson james.masson at tradefair.com
Wed Sep 2 13:14:24 UTC 2009


Hi list,

I've been playing with netcf for about a day now, and have loads of questions, if this isn't the
right place to ask, let me know.

At Tradefair, we have our own in house developed network scripts to assemble network connections in
more complicated arrangements than the RHEL 5 network scripts will allow.

Now, the questions....

1) We've heard that netcf will possibly be in RHEL 6, and would like to replace our custom scripts
for something that hopefully will become mainline. - Is it likely netcf will be in RHEL 6?


2) The (limited) documentation, and my testing seems to imply that netcf uses the distribution's
native network configuration files to assemble the network - is this true? Can you assemble network
configurations with netcf that you couldn't with the native scripts alone?


3) The documented configuration examples are fairly limited, and I'm reduced to dumping the
configuration of existing bond/bridge/vlan'd networks to try to figure out how to construct some of
configurations I want. Could you provide an example for the configuration below?


eth5 --\              ---bond0.51 ------ xenbr51
        \            /
         \___bond0__/
         /          \
        /            \
eth9 --/              ---bond0.61 ------ xenbr61




regards

James Masson


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