Re: [IPCop-devel] [2.0] ethernet settings CONFIG_TYPE

Le mercredi 30 janvier 2008 19:28, Olaf Westrik a écrit :
> Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > My suggestion would be to create CONFIG_GREEN, CONFIG_BLUE,
> > CONFIG_ORANGE, CONFIG_RED by default and put inside the number of
> > interfaces of corresponding color inside.
> > This way, it is trivial to test if an interface type is configured and in
> > the futur, we may have a loop to configure each interface of the same
> > color.
>
> I forgot to write that down, I actually considered GREEN_COUNT,
> BLUE_COUNT etc. But the actual name is not that important. Important is
> that they will be (always) present and set to 0,1,2 etc.
>
> This makes (especially if we make multiple colours someday) testing and
> loop iteration very easy.
>
>
> Olaf

Here we come, fixed configuration is bad, un-extandable, un-understandable.
Better now than never.

The actual mistake you are doing (from1.4) is saying that a logical interface 
is a physical interface.

Clearly separate the hardware interface with it's own and relevant parameters
(eg an eth, an isdn, an usb, a wifi, whatever you want) from logical 
interfaces used in the firewall (red, green(s), ...) then use a bind system
to say RED is this hardware interfaces, GREEN is that one, ....



Franck