[BusyBox] ifupdown improvements

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Wed Aug 6 09:24:12 UTC 2003


On Wed Jul 30, 2003 at 10:56:31PM +0200, Eric Spakman wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> The attached patch adds "mtu" and "hwaddress" to the inet6 method and 
> "mtu", "hwaddr" and "pointopoint" to the inet4 method (just like in 
> the ifupdown part). 
> Note: "hwaddress" can't be used with the busybox ip applet (this 
> function isn't implemented in bb ip yet), but it can be of use with 
> an external "full blown" ip package.
> 
> The patch also removes "label" from the loopback configuration, 
> labels (subinterfaces) aren't used with loopback interfaces.
> 
> It further solves a problem in the bootp method, "ifconfig down 
> %interface%" should be "ifconfig %interface% down" and it's now also 
> possible to use ip with bootp.
> 
> The patch is fully tested with both busybox ip and "stand-alone" ip 
> and I didn't saw any problems.

Cool, thanks.  Applied.

 -Erik

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