From 03afcdce237b2dc52a6c1fea72b715cf6c34bf05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:43:22 +0100
Subject: Uniform adding and deleting of interfaces

The main benefit is the possibility to use interface hooks for links
that are created at runtime.
---
 src/lib/network | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/lib/network')

diff --git a/src/lib/network b/src/lib/network
index 7dfe0b5..b91b5e8 100755
--- a/src/lib/network
+++ b/src/lib/network
@@ -10,6 +10,27 @@ is_interface() {
     [[ -d "/sys/class/net/${1%%:?*}" ]]
 }
 
+## Add an interface
+# $1: interface type
+# $2: interface name
+# $3: interface link (optional)
+# $4...: additional arguments
+interface_add() {
+    local type="$1" name="$2" link="$3"
+    shift 3
+    ip link add ${link:+link "$link"} name "$name" type "$type" "$@"
+    if [[ -x "$PROFILE_DIR/interfaces/$name" ]]; then
+        source "$PROFILE_DIR/interfaces/$name"
+    fi
+}
+
+## Delete an interface
+# $1: interface name
+interface_delete() {
+    bring_interface_down "$1"
+    ip link delete "$1"
+}
+
 ## Check if an interface is up
 # $1: interface name
 interface_is_up() {
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