From 04cd52d9770c138cebc5ada8fa9732911b226307 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robby Workman Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:34:24 -0600 Subject: README: Noted status of virtual-ifs branch --- README | 33 ++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 9cd7f39..915a5f8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,32 +6,15 @@ 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 :-) +This branch is feature-complete with respect to the stock networking +scripts in Slackware -current, but it also (has|will hopefully have) +other features listed below as TODO items. TODO: - -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: 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 + * create tun/tap interfaces [done] + * additional IP addresses to interfaces + * IPv6 support -- cgit v1.2.3