On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:24 +0100, 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? > > 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. > > Kind of the Grand Unified Theory of network configuration :-) > > Right now, this implementation uses a daemon service and a command > line utility. These two communicate securely via a local UNIX socket, > allowing the server to validate the client's user id. > > The server offers a REST interface to various aspects of network > configuration. The client application uses REST calls to retrieve > interface configuration and status, or to reconfigure interfaces. > The path space used by the API can be extended to cover other aspects > of network configuration as well, such as reading, writing and restoring > the resolv.conf file. > > After having hacked on this for a while, I want to release this to > the community for feedback. > > If you're interested in finding out more, you will find a README > and several manpages in the source code, which is available from > http://gitorious.org/wicked > I'm going to be a little more positive with my comments for Olaf. The way I read his original post, is he is simply providing an alternative in addition to what we already have. I certainly didn't ready it as a replacement proposal. Good work Olaf. Keep up the good work. For future reference, we need to encourage these sorts of development projects. It's great for both Fedora and Linux. Regards -- Chris Jones PHOTO RESOLUTIONS - Photo - Graphic - Web ABN: 98 317 740 240 @: chrisjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://photoresolutions.freehostia.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
