unconfigured interfaces

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:48:59AM -0500, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> 
> >Kieren Hynd wrote:
> >>So, the question is: Does anyone know of a way to get Wackamole to
> >>manage its virtual interfaces on a 'real' interface under linux that 
> >>has
> >>no address assigned to it (ie; down)?
> >>If we try to run Wackamole on an interface that isn't up, it has
> >>problems bringing up its virtual interfaces because the interface eth0
> >>wasn't up, and therefore had no routes in place.
> 
> The problem is unclear to me.  Is it that the IP address cannot be 
> added, or that it is added successfully but does not work because it is 
> lacking a route?  The first would be a bug, while the second would be 
> an unimplemented feature.  The CVS version of wackamole does have the 
> ability to run arbitrary C code and perl code when an interface goes up 
> or down -- so it could be done that way.

Cheers, we're just building the CVS to have a play with some Perl :)

Kieren
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