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
next prev parent 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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