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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> 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?

I now pushed this stuff out, and I agree that we will end up needing
separate [Address] (and also [Route]) sections in addition to the
simple Address=address/prefixlen and Gateway=address in the [Network]
section.

Cheers,

Tom