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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>
Cc: Lloyd Standish <lloyd@crnatural.net>,
	"netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can't set default route for virtual interface
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:39:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1325173193.11172.150.camel@steve-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EFC4EA0.9010403@treenet.co.nz>

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 00:27 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 28/12/2011 11:21 p.m., Andrew Beverley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 23:36 -0600, Lloyd Standish wrote:
> >>    I usually bring up interfaces with "ifup" when I can
> > Ah, therein lies an interesting situation. ifup is pretty old too, and
> > makes calls to the ifconfig command, which is a real pain. However,
> > unless someone tells me otherwise, I'm not aware of a replacement for
> > it.
> 
> That would be ...
> 
>    ip link set dev eth0 up
>    ip link set dev eth0 down

Yes :-)

Although that only really replaces the ifconfig part. It would be nice
to have a proper replacement for ifup/ifdown that does the rest of the
networking stuff, such as setting the ip address and calling scripts, as
is contained in /etc/network/interfaces. It'll also call pppd and so on
as well.

Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-29 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-27 23:32 can't set default route for virtual interface Lloyd Standish
2011-12-27 23:43 ` Andrew Beverley
2011-12-28  5:36   ` Lloyd Standish
2011-12-28 10:21     ` Andrew Beverley
2011-12-29 11:27       ` Amos Jeffries
2011-12-29 15:39         ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2011-12-29 15:53       ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-12-28  0:40 ` Brian Austin - Standard Universal
2011-12-28  0:42 ` Brian Austin - Standard Universal
2011-12-28  1:56   ` Lloyd Standish

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