[systemd-devel] [RFC][PATCH] networkd: add a basic network daemon

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 06.11.13 02:57, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> >> Gateway=192.168.1.1
> >> Address=label at 192.168.1.23/24
> >> Address=fe80::9aee:94ff:fe3f:c618/64
> >
> > Hmm, what's the plan regarding confguration of scopes and other
> > attributes of addresses? Is the "label@" syntax your invention or has
> > this been used elsewhere (I am not opposed to the syntax, just curious).
> 
> Good question. The @ syntax is my invention, but i'm very happy to
> change it if anyone has a better suggestion. For the other properties
> we might want, I would really like to find a syntax to get them all on
> one line. I'll try figure out a more or less exhaustive list of the
> properties we might want to support and suggest a syntax for it. In
> the meantime I'll commit this without the "label@" support, as the
> rest should be uncontroversial, and then we can add back the labeling
> when we are sure it is the way we want it.

I have my suspicions that that won't work out since there already are
quite a few properties for addresses, no? There's scope, flags,
label. For Point-To-Point stuff the address needs to be paired with a
local one, and in other cases with a broadcast address. We should at
least try to normalize this into different sections, no? 

Something that might work is to allow seperate [Address] sections for
the complicated cases on top of Address= for the usual cases?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat