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

[Koen Kooi]

Op 2 okt. 2014, om 15:29 heeft Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> het volgende geschreven:

> 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.

I'm certainly interested, but I can't promise to test it in a timely fashion since it needs to run on my fiber modem.

regards,

Koen

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