[netcf-devel] New to netcf - lots of questions

[James Masson]

Hi list,

I've been playing with netcf for about a day now, and have loads of questions, if this
isn't the
right place to ask, let me know.

At Tradefair, we have our own in house developed network scripts to assemble network
connections in
more complicated arrangements than the RHEL 5 network scripts will allow.

Now, the questions....

1) We've heard that netcf will possibly be in RHEL 6, and would like to replace our
custom scripts
for something that hopefully will become mainline. - Is it likely netcf will be in RHEL
6?


2) The (limited) documentation, and my testing seems to imply that netcf uses the
distribution's
native network configuration files to assemble the network - is this true? Can you
assemble network
configurations with netcf that you couldn't with the native scripts alone?


3) The documented configuration examples are fairly limited, and I'm reduced to
dumping the
configuration of existing bond/bridge/vlan'd networks to try to figure out how to
construct some of
configurations I want. Could you provide an example for the configuration below?


eth5 --\              ---bond0.51 ------ xenbr51
        \            /
         \___bond0__/
         /          \
        /            \
eth9 --/              ---bond0.61 ------ xenbr61




regards

James Masson