On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 at 14:00:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> I didn't either, as I couldn't solve the halting problem I just poked >> around to see why the network configuration seemed to loop :-P Anyway >> that file is shipped by the initramfs-tools package, so if you want that >> behavior to be documented you should file a bug report there. > > Perhaps you could say that the dropbear initramfs script runs the > configure_networking function from the initramfs-tools package.
IMHO this is an implementation detail hence doesn't have its place in the doc. > BTW, in the dropbear-initramfs scripts, is it normal to have > a script called "ifdown": > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-bottom/ifdown > > instead of "dropbear" (or "dropbear-ifdown")? Yes, since it merely brings the network down and has nothing to do with dropbear. I guess initramfs-tools could ship it instead, though. -- Guilhem.
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