Network config must be easy to adapt to different networking arrangements

[Ian Wells]

It should be easy to change /etc/network/interfaces to deal with different network setups.

End users are likely to want additional networking features. I've already seen:
- multiple interfaces
- interface bonding

I'm sure there will be others. We should add a more configurable mechanism to allow the user to tailor the interfaces file.

(Ian has a proposal in detail and will sort out a pull request.)

[Mark T. Voelker (mvoelker)]

How do you propose to address this?

[Chris Ricker (chris-ricker)]

Ian has a solution, and Daneyon has suggested bringing forward similar work that was done in the Essex branch. Need to determine a path forward between those two

[Mark T. Voelker (mvoelker)]

Yes, the description mentions a solution from Ian as well, but doesn't say what it is. I think what's lacking here is a description of either solution. Hard to make a decision on their relative merits until we know what they are. =)

[Ian Wells (ijw-ubuntu)]

Mine is a templating system that takes the network/interfaces and rewrites
it in the late-commands. Daneyon's is a set of interface-patching and
service restart blocks. His is closely integrated with the openstack
block and simplifies some config at the expense of limiting possible
options; mine's entirely openstack-independent and you can write what
interface definitions you like (but no clues: it's just a raw interface
file).

--
Ian.

On 11/12/2012 18:56, "Mark T. Voelker" <email address hidden> wrote:

>Yes, the description mentions a solution from Ian as well, but doesn't
>say what it is. I think what's lacking here is a description of either
>solution. Hard to make a decision on their relative merits until we
>know what they are. =)
>
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>Title:
> Network config must be easy to adapt to different networking
> arrangements
>
>Status in Openstack @ Cisco:
> Confirmed
>Status in Cisco Openstack folsom series:
> Incomplete
>
>Bug description:
> It should be easy to change /etc/network/interfaces to deal with
> different network setups.
>
> End users are likely to want additional networking features. I've
>already seen:
> - multiple interfaces
> - interface bonding
>
> I'm sure there will be others. We should add a more configurable
> mechanism to allow the user to tailor the interfaces file.
>
> (Ian has a proposal in detail and will sort out a pull request.)
>
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