Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Support for IPv6 and bonding

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hi Arnaud,

> First, excuse me if this mail is not the proper way of sending
> improvements to Devil Linux, as I have just subscribed to this list.

Almost perfect. ;-)
That's what we usually suggest:
http://www.devil-linux.org/newdoc/ch03s03.html
Do you have a URL where we get ifenslave ?

> I have taken up Francois Dumont's work on IPv6 and bonding support. At
> the moment, I have working support for both with just a few changes in
> /etc/init.d/network. I have not rebuilt the CD distribution, though,
> so the ifenslave binary (necessary for bonding) is just sitting in
> /etc. The IPv6 routing syntax is derived from the IPv4 syntax in Devil
> 1.0.x, but not the same because the : char is obviously needed in IPv6
> addresses. So I just used % as a separator because it was the first
> choice that crossed my mind; is this correct or even important?

Friedrich? You're the master of disaster, I mean routing.

> I have attached a patch against /etc/init.d/network from Devil Linux
> 1.0.4. The ifenslave binary I used is the one from my Fedora Core
> workstation, which just happened to work.

[....]

> I hope I will be able to rebuild a working distro with ifenslave
> included in the next few days.

So I guess you even add ifenslave for us?
Great :-))

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org