Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:46:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org>
To: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Static network configuration bug?
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On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Ariadne Conill wrote:

> On Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:38:05 PM MST Mark Hills wrote:
> > Following the wiki for a static IP setup:
> > 
> >  
> > https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Configure_Networking#IPv4_Static_Address_
> > Configuration
> > 
> > It states the following for configuration:
> > 
> >   iface eth0 inet static
> >         address 192.168.1.150/24
> >         gateway 192.168.1.1
> 
> This syntax is only supported by ifupdown-ng, which is new to Alpine 3.13, or 
> Debian ifupdown.  It's not supported by Busybox ifupdown.
> 
> The documentation has been updated to reflect ifupdown-ng.

It could have been better to wait until after the release of 3.13 before 
updating the user docs, as they are broken now. I presume the old syntax 
is supported by ifupdown-ng.

Thanks for the immediate response.

-- 
Mark