Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] network: add static route support

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On 04.06.2014 08:25, Dave Young wrote:
> On 05/29/14 at 02:20pm, Dave Young wrote:
>> On 05/27/14 at 02:25pm, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 05/22/14 at 03:33pm, Dave Young wrote:
>>>> On 05/05/14 at 03:12pm, Baoquan He wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Baoquan
>>>>
>>>> The route-$netif is supposed in 1st kernel filesystem. Can we passing the
>>>> detail ip/netmask/gw for specific nic in kernel cmdline instead of copy
>>>> the route file in initramfs? In that way we can avoid this dracut fix.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if it works for the complicate route setup though.
>>>
>>> I am not sure, it had better handle the route during setup net. I want
>>> to hear what Harald will say. He is more familiar with this.
>>
>> Ok, the route table item must be a line like "192.168.100.1 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo  metric 203"
>>
>> If passing them via cmdline we need quote it with some special character and append
>> it to the ip= cmdline param
>>
>> The other way is copy the route file to /etc/ in initramfs like you are doing.
>> But we did need the functions to handle the static route.
>>
>> So leave to Harald about the interface. 
> 
> Harald, what do you prefer to passing static route item to initramfs?
> Do you have beeter idea in mind?
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
> 

Actually, I would like to parse systemd-networkd like config files.
As we will integrate systemd-networkd as a replacement for our shell script
mess in the future, I think it might make more sense not to introduce another
format, which will be obsoleted.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html

What do you think?

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