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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:41:57 +0000
From: Simon Baker <simonb@...zo.org>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: VLANs in Owl way?
> Piotr, Simon -
>
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:18:08AM +0100, Piotr Meyer wrote:
>> I think about adding vlan (8021q) support to Owl's network scripts.
> I'd appreciate you proposing a patch.
>
> Please note that we're also planning to rework the networking startup
> scripts, and to add IPv6 support.
>
> Simon did some work on this, but never contributed any code. Simon -
> are you still around? Can you please share your work-in-progress such
> that we take a look and possibly have another person start from there?
>
>
I am, and I'm still reading the list when I get a chance ;-)
I had a hdd crash a while back and I lost the (bit) of work I had done.
I was generally looking at how redhat, etc, handled ipv6. I thought
that this approach was the cleanest (note this is how a user would
configure it):
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-redhat-fedora-centos-ipv6-network-configuration/
Also, with Owl having "redhat" / "centos" 'isms, i started work using
some patches / scripts which I found here:
http://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/index.html
I can't seem to see them today though. I do however have a directory
which contains some of them, though I'm really not sure how useful these
will be in their present state.
I apologise again for slacking on this ; work commitments have been
taking up too much time recently.
Moving forward, one of the things I was going to propose actually was a
more functional kernel config similar to how slackware provides them ; a
"normal" kernel and a "huge" kernel with lots more features enabled,
which could contain support for many other things which are not enabled
by default, such as LVM device mapper, crypt-targets, vlan, ipv6, etc.
Of course I do appreciate the settings configured in the normal
config, it's just that they no longer suit my own personal needs now,
and the OpenVZ kernel can occasionally be a pain to successfully compile.
Regards,
Simon.
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