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

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 02.10.14 13:00, Koen Kooi (koen at dominion.thruhere.net) wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 :)
>
> Hmm, Tom has some patches adding native pppoe support to networkd
> (without pppd), iirc. Might be a better option to finish those.
>
> Tom?

Yes, I have some WIP patches to do PPPoE directly from networkd [0].
If you are interested in using this, I'll clean it up and get it ready
for merging/testing.

Cheers,

Tom

[0]: <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~tomegun/systemd/log/?h=ppp>