---
name: "Network::RawNetwork"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "systemconfigurator"
version: "1.20-1"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Network::RawNetwork"
---

# Network::RawNetwork(3pm)

Raw /etc/init.d/network Module

## NAME

Network::RawNetwork - Raw /etc/init.d/network Module

## SYNOPSIS

```
  my $networking = new Network::RawNetwork(%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 Raw Networking style networking was discovered on the machine, undef if it was not.  The current test checks for the existance of a line in  /etc/init.d/network which consists entirely of 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1'.

- *setup\_global()*

  The *setup()* method sets up the file /$root/etc/init.d/network script to make raw calls to ifconfig and route.  This networking will work for any distribution.  It also creats an /etc/hostname file, as it seems that distributions that have this footprint also use /etc/hostname to set the system hostname on boot.

- *setup\_interface()*

  *setup\_interface()* method determines which network setup method will be used for the  particular interface.  It only adds lines to the file in the event that it is a static address.  Otherwise it is assumed that there is a dhcp client script elsewhere.

## AUTHOR

```
  Sean Dague <japh@us.ibm.com>
```

## SEE ALSO

SystemConifg::Network, Net::Netmask, perl