Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:52:33 +0200 From: Jerome Herman <jherman@dichotomia.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore Message-ID: <4E2B5EC1.2@dichotomia.fr> In-Reply-To: <4E2B4A46.6060603@cran.org.uk> References: <4E23989F.7010701@gmail.com> <4e242fab.s4vpgxxZEUq0LFDq%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1311017168.44397.YahooMailRC@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <13800_1311018255_4E248D0F_13800_81_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499C521864F@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20110718162245.0d426239@scorpio> <20110719032131.GA29635@guilt.hydra> <20110719085529.1671ec7f@scorpio> <20110722105642.d21067c0.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110722125826.GA73065@guilt.hydra> <20110722110540.6105ccc9@scorpio> <20110723215807.GA78426@guilt.hydra> <4E2B4A46.6060603@cran.org.uk>
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On 24/07/2011 00:25, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 23/07/2011 22:58, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> Do you realize that MS Windows has nothing equivalent to rc.conf or
>> /etc/network/interfaces?
>
> It does: it's in the registry.
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces
> contains a list of interfaces and their settings.
Yeap, just a small detail, it doesn't bind the configuration to a
device, but to a connection interface, which in turn is bound either to
a control interface or to another service interface.
Which in turns can be bound either to a final control interface, to
another service interface or even to another connection interface.
All these bearing names in form of their class id + uid :
{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}\{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}
You basically turn around in circle for hours, looking for the next
clue, if you do not use windows tools to do the job. Sure you can write
WSH/WPS to do the mapping for you, but that is still using windows tools.
And I definitly would not edit those manually except for very simple
changes, the imbrication of layers of control sets/interfaces/devices
can result in unexpected results (for example in the likely case where
you have a firewall, a tunnel, a VPN or anything at all also using the
interface you are editing).
I remember crying tears of blood when I had to remove (not disable,
destroy) from one tunnel connection all the 7 different version of IPv6
windows put on each and every network interface.
>
> %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc contains several BSD configuration
> files for DNS settings, protocols etc.
>
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