Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:36:49 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] [PATCH] alpine-conf: modify setup-interfaces to
 create simple bridges
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:16:26 +0100
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> wrote:

> Modified setup-interfaces to create simple bridges (works only with
> one interface per bridge). Useful when setting up a Xen system, since
> interfaces need to be bridged in order for guests to have networking.
> Some distributions automatically create one bridge for each interface
> when Xen is installed, but I think this is too aggressive.

Nice!

as mentioned in IRC, I think we should check only ask for bridge in
case its a xen dom0. I want try keep number of questions down to
minimum.

Thanks!

-nc

> ---
>  setup-interfaces.in |   45
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 41
> insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/setup-interfaces.in b/setup-interfaces.in
> index b461529..f78b23b 100755
> --- a/setup-interfaces.in
> +++ b/setup-interfaces.in
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ PREFIX=
>  
>  . $PREFIX/lib/libalpine.sh
>  
> +bridges=""
>  
>  detect_interfaces() {
>  	ip addr | grep -v ' lo:' | awk -F : '/^[0-9]*:/ { print $2}'
> @@ -42,7 +43,26 @@ config_iface() {
>  	local address
>  	local netmask
>  	local gateway
> +	local bridge
>  	local conf=$prefix$iface.conf
> +	local answer
> +
> +	while [ "$answer" != "yes" ] && [ "$answer" != "no" ] ; do
> +		echon "Do you want to bridge the interface $iface?
> [no] "
> +		default_read answer no
> +	done
> +
> +	if [ "$answer" = "yes" ]; then
> +		bridge="br"`echo $iface | sed 's/[^0-9]//g'`
> +		while [ 1 ]; do
> +			echon "Name of the bridge you would like to
> create: [$bridge] "
> +			default_read bridge $bridge
> +			`echo "$bridges" | grep -q "$bridge"` ||
> break
> +			echo "Name already in use, please choose
> another one"
> +		done
> +		echo "bridge=${bridge}" > $conf
> +		bridges="$bridges $bridge"
> +	fi
>  
>  	# use ipcalc to validate the address. we do accept /mask
>  	# we are no interested in the result, only error code, so
> @@ -55,7 +75,7 @@ config_iface() {
>  		[ "$address" = "abort" ] && return
>  		if [ "$address" = "dhcp" ] ; then
>  			HAS_DHCP=yes
> -			echo "type=dhcp" > $conf
> +			echo "type=dhcp" >> $conf
>  			rm $iface.noconf
>  			return
>  		fi
> @@ -87,7 +107,7 @@ config_iface() {
>  		[ -z "$gateway" ] && break
>  	done
>  	
> -	echo "type=static" > $conf
> +	echo "type=static" >> $conf
>  	echo "address=${address%%/*}" >> $conf  #strip off /mask if
> there echo "netmask=$netmask" >> $conf
>  	echo "gateway=$gateway" >> $conf
> @@ -146,8 +166,20 @@ prompt_for_interfaces() {
>  		iface=`basename $i .conf`
>  		iface=${iface#[0-9]*~}
>  		. ./$i
> -		echo "auto $iface" >> interfaces
> -		echo "iface $iface inet $type" >> interfaces
> +		if [ -n "$bridge" ]; then
> +			echo "auto $iface $bridge" >> interfaces
> +			echo "" >> interfaces
> +			echo "iface $iface inet manual" >> interfaces
> +			echo -e "\tup ip link set \$IFACE up" >>
> interfaces
> +			echo -e "\tdown ip link set \$IFACE down" >>
> interfaces
> +			echo "" >> interfaces
> +			echo "iface $bridge inet $type" >> interfaces
> +			echo -e "\tpre-up brctl addbr $bridge" >>
> interfaces
> +			echo -e "\tpre-up brctl addif $bridge
> $iface" >> interfaces
> +		else
> +			echo "auto $iface" >> interfaces
> +			echo "iface $iface inet $type" >> interfaces
> +		fi
>  		case $type in
>  		dhcp)
>  			[ -n "$hostname" ] \
> @@ -160,7 +192,12 @@ prompt_for_interfaces() {
>  				&& echo -e "\tgateway $gateway" >>
> interfaces ;;
>  		esac
> +		if [ -n "$bridge" ]; then
> +			echo -e "\tpost-down brctl delif $bridge
> $iface" >> interfaces
> +			echo -e "\tpost-down brctl delbr $bridge" >>
> interfaces
> +		fi
>  		echo "" >> interfaces
> +		bridge=""
>  	done
>  	
>  	while [ "$answer" != "yes" ] && [ "$answer" != "no" ] ; do



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