Network::LinuxConf(3pm)

NAME

Network::LinuxConf - Linux Conf Networking Module

SYNOPSIS

  my $networking = new Network::LinuxConf(%vars);

  if($networking->footprint()) {
      $networking->setup();
  }

  my @fileschanged = $networking->files();

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

The following methods exist in this module:

footprint()

This method returns 1 if LinuxConf networking was discovered on the machine, undef if it was not. The current test checks for the existance of $chroot/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup.

setup_interface($interface)

This sets up the ifcfg-$dev files. It assumes that it has free reign of these files, which should be valid except for some fairly esoteric networking configurations.

It sets ONBOOT to yes, DEVICE to $interface_device (as specified in the config file).

If $interface_type is 'static', and $interface_ip exists, it will set up all the appropriate settings for static ip addresses. NETMASK will be either the value specified in $interface_netmask, or the appropriate default for the ip address specified.

If $interface_type is 'bootp', the interface is setup of for bootp.

Otherwise the interface is setup for dhcp.

setup_global

setup_global sets up the default gatway, and the host/domain names via modification of /etc/sysconfig/network. It does not assume that it owns this file. If the file already exists it will move it to /etc/systconfig/network.scbak first, then create the new file by modifying the lines from the old file that it needs to.

If it creates a new file it will create a file with NETWORKING, FORWARD_IPV4, GATEWAY, HOSTNAME, and DOMAINNAME. NETWORKING will default to "yes" and FORWARD_IPV4 will default to "no".

AUTHOR

  Sean Dague <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO

SystemConifg::Network, Net::Netmask, perl