thanks to vda

[David Collier]

In article <4CFCCDF1.4030706 at bfs.de>, wharms at bfs.de (walter harms) wrote:

> *From:* walter harms <wharms at bfs.de>
> *To:* from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com
> *CC:* busybox at busybox.net
> *Date:* Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:50:09 +0100
> 
> My first version is mostly a script and some thing you can run in 
> paralell.
> E.g. setting a fixed address at start und then use dhcpd to get a 
> real address.
> Using alias addresses is a nice way for debugging :) Our system 
> also has
> a serial port where you can connect. (when you use dhcpd in 
> background).

I will look at alias address, that's new to me.

We have a 2nd Ethernet I can run on 192.168 to watch the storm from a
safe distance. 

> my sheppard is init (i know vda do no like it but it is easy to 
> handle and a
> SYSV init with runlevel is nice to debug). When you know more you 
> can replace
> the scripts with a daemon but usualy the scripting works well enough

I'll have a look at init, and vda's method too....

Not sure if they give em anything I don't get from a shell script, but
that's what makes learning interesting.