On May 21, 2008, at 5:50 AM, Elliot Peele wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:35:30AM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:40 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
This patch removes anaconda's use of libdhcp, which also means
removing libdhcp4client and libdhcp6client. For static network
configuration, I am using libnl. To gather current network
interface
information, I am using libnl. To control IPv6 autoconf, I read/
write /proc since that's all we can do right now. For DHCP and
DHCPv6, I run dhclient and dhcp6c, respectively.
I'd like everyone to have a look at iface.h and the patch file. It's
not complete yet, so I probably know about the obvious things (the
FIXMEs and the useless debugging printfs and the incomplete isys.py
code and so on). The goal with iface.patch is to get us closer to
using NetworkManager in stage 1 and stage 2. I envision the NM
changeover to be just as large, but hopefully by then we will have
decided to nuke certain parts of loader entirely. Completely
eliminating libdhcp and friends will be a nice step.
So, I'm going to ask the obvious question which ends up staring us in
the face at this point. Why not use NetworkManager like the rest
of the
OS *now* instead of making another wheel for ourselves that in all
likelihood, will end up having to be maintained for on the order of
years.
What about distros that don't use NetworkManager? Will there be a fall
back? If we are using NetworkManager with Anaconda will it still able
able to generate "classic" network configuration?
Personally, I'd rather not allow users the option to create a classic
set of ifcfg-* files if we are doing NM by default. As long as it's
an option, people will still use it, which means we'll still have to
support multiple ways of configuring network devices on the target
system. If we're going NM for everything, it should be NM for
everything.
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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