diff options
| author | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2017-03-09 16:34:24 -0600 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2017-07-12 04:13:47 -0500 |
| commit | 9342d196f5ff5ad7a4753ae4402338f4adae788c (patch) | |
| tree | 9dda80692a46b2ec5efd2d1f0d2f86f37ef92bb7 /README | |
| parent | 7908176c86e99f57d6fb85593606e23201e8a7b4 (diff) | |
| download | slacknetsetup-9342d196f5ff5ad7a4753ae4402338f4adae788c.tar.xz | |
README: Noted status of master branch
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 30 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 23 deletions
@@ -6,32 +6,16 @@ This document is/will be useful: http://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/ To prevent multiple people trying to push changes to master branch, please make changes in a user branch, push them, and I'll merge, -or make a diff and send it to me. +or make a diff and send it to me. If you would like commit access +to a user branch, send me a mail with an ssh pubkey attached. Before production use and/or heavy testing, grep through for any instances of "TODO" and fix them :-) -TODO: +At this point, I *think* this branch (master) has feature (and bug) +parity with the stock networking scripts in Slackware -current. -There's plenty of room for refactoring and even rewriting here, such -as supporting addition of tun/tap devices for adding to bridges or -using for VPNs, supporting IPv6, etcetera. However, primary focus thus -far is to simply duplicate existing functionality and make sure it all -works as expected. Once that's confirmed, we can reassess where to go -from there. - -I've got one host here (no tests run on this host though) that shows -the loopback interface in state UNKNOWN: - 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 - link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 -No idea how common this is, but perhaps a slight change of the loopback -checking logic is needed... - -Tested successfully so far: - * dhcp configuration of one interface - * static configuration of one interface - * bridge with four interfaces (eth0, tap1, tap2, tap3) with static - IP address; I created the tap interfaces manually in rc.modules.local - since there's currently no support for creating them in the network - scripts +If you're interested in something more experimental (creation of +virtual interfaces, along with ability to add them to a bridge), +see the "virtual-ifs" branch instead. |