[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] network -> network-bridge rename WAS: Re: RE: help with bugs

[Sean Dague <sean@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:55:19AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > Next, I'd make it such that it's possible to have multiple 
> > > network-script lines, each with parameters e.g. something like:
> > 
> > I started this - but it became less than desirable to stick 
> > all of this into xend. That is, what I was thinking was - we 
> > simply point the tools to a configuration file that's a top 
> > level script, and hide all of the meat of the work inside 
> > those scripts. If we change the syntax, we wouldn't require a 
> > change to the tools, would be one advantage.
> > 
> > > (network-script ( network-bridge ( bridge xen-br0 ) ( 
> > netdev eth0 ) ) 
> > > ) (network-script ( network-bridge ( bridge xen-br1 ) ( 
> > netdev eth1 ) 
> > > ) )
> 
> I guess we could just point it at a top-level script, but it seems a bit
> of a cop out, and rather different to the way we configure and invoke
> other helper scripts. 
> 
> I think at the very least we should allow the 'netdev' to be cloned and
> added to the bridge to be specified in xend-config.sxp. I guess this
> could be another top-level variable, or better specified as a parameter
> to the network-script (as above).
> 
> I guess setups with multiple active NICs are relatively rare and can be
> dealt with using a top-level script (or configured manually).

I'd disagree with that (unless I am misunderstanding the definition of
active).  Every pizza box server I've seen ship in the last 3 years has had
dual onboard nics.  Dual nic setup for server (one for production and one
for administration) is best practice for any reasonable size server
environment.

> NB: The default for 'network-script' should be to run no script at all.
> 
> 
> Ian 
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