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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: only the loopback interface should provide net
From: William Hubbs <williamh () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2012-02-22 21:19:27
Message-ID: 20120222211927.GA1854 () linux1
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All,
after discussions with several devs on irc about this issue, the
following change has been made in openrc-0.9.9 which was just released:
The loopback interface provides lo and *NOT* net.
All other network interfaces provide net.
For the categories given, this means the following:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 06:15:13PM -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> 1. Services that connect to remote machines via any available network
> interface.
These should use or need net.
> 2. Services that listen to connections from remote machines on any
> available network interface, and run correctly even if no non-lo
> interfaces are up.
These should be changed to use or need lo.
> 3. Services that require a specific network interface, bind to a
> specific address, or connect to a specific machine on the local subnet.
These will have to be configured by the user with something like:
rc_use/need="!net net.iface"
Thanks,
William
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