Create Gateway Resource

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Create Gateway Resource

[iainbrighton]

I agree that the gateway resource should be in a separate resource. There may be times you don't want to set a gateway (on a second NIC for example) but the IPAddress resource currently requires this!

[PlagueHO]

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This change does make sense to me and would simplify a lot of my configs.

Presumably the schema would be something like this?

[ClassVersion("1.0.0"), FriendlyName("xGatewayAddress")] 
class MSFT_xGatewayAddress : OMI_BaseResource
{
  [Write] string Address;
  [Write, Description("Ensure the presence/absence of the resource"), ValueMap{"Present", "Absent"},Values{"Present", "Absent"}] String Ensure;
  [Key] string InterfaceAlias;
  [Key,Write,ValueMap{"IPv4", "IPv6"},Values{"IPv4", "IPv6"}] string AddressFamily;
};

I set both IPv4 and IPv6 gateways on the same interface usually so ideally it would support both :)

[tysonjhayes]

Yeah that seems pretty good to me. I won't have time for a bit to get started on it but if if anyone wants to take a pass I'd gladly do a code review.

[PlagueHO]

I'm happy to take it on if it's good with you. After all, it'll simplify my configs :)

[tysonjhayes]

Consider it yours @PlagueHO. I would ask that part of your commit be to remove it from xIPAddress to satisfy #22. Otherwise your config looks good!

[tysonjhayes]

This is fixed, closing this out. Thanks everyone!