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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
