Created attachment 333958 [details] Patch to recognise PEER keyword and set address accordingly Description of problem: Some ethernet interfaces are in fact point to point (e.g. machine connected to an ADSL router running half bridge), so it would be useful to just say PEER=address/bits in the config file and be done with it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-8.89-2 Additional info: Sample patch attached. This is admittedly against F-10 initscripts, but you'll get the point.
Created attachment 333959 [details] Patch to recognise PEER keyword and set address accordingly Local address cannot have prefix if peer is used (according to ip manual page).
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So, any chance we have something like this implemented?
(In reply to comment #11) > So, any chance we have something like this implemented? hm, looking at the subject, the affected component "initscripts" and considering that NetworkManager is now preferred, I don't think there is any interest in fixing this ... but this is just my rough guess OTOH, if there is a patch ready, which doesn't seem to break anything (if [ -z "${PEER}" ] ... keeps the original behaviour), I think the package owner could do you a favour and include the patch on next update ... Bill, what'd you say?
Initscripts still supports a number of use cases that NetworkManager doesn't, and probably doesn't even *want* to. I don't think we can abandon it yet.
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