Hi,

currently, Funtoo's Networking doesn't handle any kind of errors. This is very bad. Imagine the following scenario:

1. You created

   /etc/init.d/netif.eth0

   and

   /etc/conf.d/netif.eth0

   using the interface template for a static ip configuration for example

2. You add

   rc_need="netif.eth0"

   to

   /etc/conf.d/anyService

No you make sure, that your network doesn't work

When you now start /etc/init.d/netif.eth0 (e.g. while booting) you will see something like

 * Network interface eth0 up ...
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
Command failure: ip link set eth0 up
RTNETLINK answers: No such process               [ ok ]

That's totally wrong! It is not "ok".

And

/etc/init.d/netif.eth0 status

will also return

 * status: started

which is - obviously - also wrong.

Side effect: Services depending on netif.eth0 will now also be launched and might end up in an unexpected error condition.