[systemd-devel] [question] networkd: Any support for hooks?

[Koen Kooi]

Op 2 okt. 2014, om 07:36 heeft Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Cameron,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Cameron Norman <camerontnorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ifupdown [1], NetworkManager, and WICD all support hooks for when a
>> network interface is configured or deconfigured (before and after
>> these actions).
>> 
>> Are there any plans to support something along these lines? If so,
>> what will that look like?
>> 
>> If there are no plans, how do networkd's developers feel about adding
>> the feature (will not merge, or will accept patches, etc.) ?
> 
> I am sceptical to adding hooks, so would need a lot of convincing.
> What we do, however, is to expose the configuration state using the
> sd-network C API, which external programs can watch and react on (see
> how timesyncd and resolved currently works).
> 
> For specific hooks, we may want to integrate them directly upstream,
> but it really depends on what functionality you have in mind.

For my use-case (fiber 'modem' doing PPPoE over vlan) I'd like to launch accelpppd to do PPPoE as soon as the vlan is up. That get me my internet back a few ms earlier when rebooting the modem :)

regards,

Koen