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[Les Mikesell]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>> Will ifconfig and route be modified internally to talk to dbus so the  
>> scripts and commands that have worked for eons continue to work?
> 
> I really don't know what you mean by this. For displaying devices,
> addresses, and routes, they will work like they always have. If you
> use it to change the configuration of a device out from under NetworkManager,
> well, then you've causes your own issue.

ifconfig has been the way to set/change addresses, netmasks, etc. since, 
well, forever.

> (Much like if you change 
> the address out from whatever /etc/init.d/network configured it
> as, actually.)

Those aren't bothered by on the fly changes - they just apply the saved 
settings the next time you boot or ifup/down.   I need to be able to do 
address/netmask/route changes, preferably by running the same commands 
as always.  And the stuff ethtool does too.  And I expect SNMP to report 
the same stuff under the same interface names.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com