On Sunday, June 19, 2011 04:23:45 PM Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

Hello,

netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing].

The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add configuration file /etc/conf.d/netcfg for net-auto-wireless - add support for restricting automatic startup of profiles (FS#23169) - bridge: add support for several brctl options (FS#16625) - wireless: add support for explicit BSSID (FS#24582) - wireless: add support for ad-hoc connections (FS#19683) - wireless: no longer require wireless_tools to work - use /run instead of /var/run - drops hard dependency on net-tools package - drops hard dependency on wireless_tools package

Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) - IPv6 is supported: no address configuration (even auto-configuration) will be done unless you say IP6=something in your profile. See the examples to see how it works - dhclient is needed if you want to support DHCPv6: this is expected to be an uncommon case, since auto-configuration exists. - netcfg can create tun/tap interfaces: it currently does not do anything with these (FS#15049)

Regards,

I'd like a minor clarification here... I've never seen a directory called run on /. Is netcfg expected to create that? Does the FHS support that?

On 2011/6/19 Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

Hello,

netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing].

Due to a small bug in net-auto-wireless, the version is now 2.6.1. Additionally some basic configuration of tun/tap interfaces is now possible. Rémy.