Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

[Jerome Herman]

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.
>