lp:netcfg

Author: Holger Wansing
Author Date: 2023-09-24 09:20:28 UTC

netcfg: prepare release version 1.188

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2023-01-21 03:05:00 UTC

DRAFT: Disable hotplug detection.

Last commits about hotplug detection are around 2005, which is a very long
time ago kernel-wise and udev-wise. A wireless USB dongle shared from the
host via libvirt appears as hotpluggable, but both lo and ens3 do as well,
as they appear several times in /etc/network/devhotplug; this seems to
hint that what worked 15+ years ago no longer does.

A regression in ifupdown 0.8.40 (#1022843) broke support for allow-hotplug
entries at boot-up, which led to the following prospecting commit message:

    Writing allow-hotplug entries becomes very problematic when network
    interfaces need some time to show up (e.g. the aforementioned dongle,
    rtl8192cu-based), and networking.service returns before they have a
    chance to appear: this means no configuration at all.

    Switching to auto all the time avoids this issue. And if some device
    is unplugged, the only downside is a slightly longer delay at bootup,
    and a failed networking.service unit.

With the regression fixed, netcfg can probably keep writing allow-hotplug
entries; whether and how to choose between auto and allow-hotplug doesn't
seem obvious though.

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2023-01-21 03:00:33 UTC

Fix DHCP+SLAAC case on wireless interfaces.

At least in the WPA case, wpa-* options cannot be set in both the “inet
dhcp” and the “inet6 auto” stanzas: testing shows that wpa_supplicant
would trigger association, possibly get an address via DHCP, before
moving on to the SLAAC stanza, and deauthenticate, leaving the network
interface DOWN.

If both DHCP and SLAAC are enabled, IPv6 settings should be received
via RAs anyway, so writing a SLAAC entry seems superfluous.

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2023-01-21 03:05:00 UTC

Disable hotplug detection.

Last commits about hotplug detection are around 2005, which is a very
long time ago kernel-wise and udev-wise. A wireless USB dongle shared
from the host via libvirt appears as hotpluggable, but both lo and
ens3 appear several times in /etc/network/devhotplug, which seems to
hint that what worked 15+ years ago no longer does.

Writing allow-hotplug entries becomes very problematic when network
interfaces need some time to show up (e.g. the aforementioned dongle,
rtl8192cu-based), and networking.service returns before they have a
chance to appear: this means no configuration at all.

Switching to auto all the time avoids this issue. And if some device
is unplugged, the only downside is a slightly longer delay at bootup,
and a failed networking.service unit.

Author: Philip Hands
Author Date: 2021-05-12 12:55:17 UTC

enable salsa-ci (with branch2repo)

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2017-07-13 15:28:59 UTC

releasing version 1.131+deb8u2

Author: Steven Chamberlain
Author Date: 2015-11-07 16:17:44 UTC

releasing version 1.131+deb8u1+kbsd8u1

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2014-12-29 17:36:48 UTC

releasing version 1.108+deb7u3

Author: Cyril Brulebois
Author Date: 2014-09-16 21:32:34 UTC

Pass extra options to wpa_supplicant (Closes: #761923).

 - syslog mode (-s), which needs a patched wpa package (see #761922).
 - debug mode (-d), so that it gets a bit more verbose. There's
   also an even more verbose mode (-dd) but that might be overkill
   for the general case (Closes: #761923).

Author: Philipp Kern
Author Date: 2012-12-06 22:29:54 UTC

stage YunQiang Su's VLAN patch

| I patched vlan to work with VLAN for linux and kfreebsd now.
| While I have no idea whether we should load 8021q module manually.
|
| I seems that 8021q module is not included in d-i (Linux).
|
| Thanks for Aron Xu to write the templates.

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-11-22 13:43:23 UTC

Align structure members and declarations to the left

Author: Christian Perrier
Author Date: 2012-09-15 17:33:56 UTC

Reviewed by jbr

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-09-13 14:08:09 UTC

Change the structure of connection_file

Author: Philipp Kern
Author Date: 2012-09-11 16:44:58 UTC

debian/*.templates: use sl6 for strings changed by IPv6 patches

Use the sublevel 6 designation for all strings changed by the
IPv6 patch set, as instructed by Christian Perrier. Also add
it to the translatable strings which miss a sublevel designation.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>

Author: Gaudenz Steinlin
Author Date: 2012-08-20 19:17:10 UTC

Add own error template for malformed netmaks

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-08-19 10:09:24 UTC

Verify that the netmask is indeed valid.

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-08-04 14:06:58 UTC

Remove unused ret variables

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-08-04 13:12:22 UTC

Remove backup treating for link timeout

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-07-31 15:32:23 UTC

Move DHCP reply constants to netcfg.h and prefixe them with DHCP_

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-07-12 21:29:52 UTC

Removed backup capb for invalid_essid template

Author: Sorina Sandu
Author Date: 2012-06-05 12:36:23 UTC

Fixed backup capability handling.

Author: Colin Watson
Author Date: 2012-03-09 16:03:46 UTC

Fix code to strip trailing dots from domains in /etc/hosts (correct in master but broken on ipv6 branch)

Author: Colin Watson
Author Date: 2011-07-06 22:52:11 UTC

Support new DHCPv6 and SLAAC configuration methods in ifupdown 0.7

Author: Matthew Palmer
Author Date: 2011-01-24 04:00:59 UTC

Cleanup WPA patch

s/iface/if_name/, wrap everything in #ifdef WIRELESS so we don't build WPA
support into arches that shouldn't have it, fix up dependencies for same,
and add a changelog entry so we can build a custom version of netcfg for
test ISOs.

Author: Aurelien Jarno
Author Date: 2010-08-12 09:24:58 UTC

Merge from trunk, up to revision 64306

r64307