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author | Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2013-08-23 18:04:28 -0700 |
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committer | Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> | 2013-08-23 18:04:28 -0700 |
commit | f0730199d43cd02e1b0a4b79707799bd377e1ae3 (patch) | |
tree | 5af27bf0b9b8b2b0ad3c2057dfe105ff9ec52276 | |
parent | CREDITS: give credit where due (diff) | |
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@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +netifrc README + +You should probably go and read the OpenRC README. + +netifrc is what was previously called 'oldnet' in OpenRC, and was the only +networking system in Baselayout 1.x. This system has been around a very long +time, at least as far back as September 2001 (that was the rc-scripts-1.1.5 +release). + +If you're interested in who contributed to this, please see the extensive +CREDITS file. + +Reporting Bugs +-------------- +Since Gentoo Linux is hosting OpenRC development, Bugs should go to +the Gentoo Bugzilla: + http://bugs.gentoo.org/ +They should be filed under the "Gentoo Hosted Projects" product and +the "netifrc" component. @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +- Review setting of bridge configuration on dynamic interface add +- _ifindex is not a reliable means of calculating metrics: + _ifindex is used for calculating metrics for new devices but has a major + problem: Since it's only the nth entry in /proc/net/dev + And devices may be removed from that file, and reordered, you won't always + get the same result. + If you do: + - add eth0 - _ifindex (eth0=0) + - add vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1) + - add vlan2 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan1=1,vlan2=2) + - rem vlan1 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1) + - add vlan3 - _ifindex (eth0=0,vlan2=1,vlan3=2) + Now your routing table has entries for both vlan2 and vlan3 with a metric of 2. + |