Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.6.7
Sarge's ifup/ifdown handling of 'up' or 'down' commands
recently gave me the following trouble:
/etc/interfaces:
iface eth0 inet static
address a.b.c.d
...
up route add -net A.A.A.A gateway a.b.c.x
up route add -net B.B.B.B gateway a.b.c.y
down route del -net B.B.B.B
down route del -net A.A.A.A
# (netmasks omitted here)
The commands for the second route (for B.B.B.B) have just
been added, the route for A.A.A.A was there before.
Now, when running
ifup eth0
it fails with some error message from the 'route' command,
since the route to A.A.A.A is already there.
On the other hand, running
ifdown eth0
fails with some other error message since the route for
B.B.B.B cannot be removed.
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Therefore two wishes:
1) When ifup or ifdown fails after some up or down command failed,
the error message is very unclear, and it is especially unclear
which of the up commands failed.
It would be nice if ifup/ifdown would report the command that
failed after the error message from the command itself.
2) The result of 'command' should be ignored, or the documentation
should recommend using some shell magic in such a case.
Even better would be
3) A simple solution for static routes as a separate Debian
package, independent from ifupdown.
Best regards,
Claus
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http://www.clausfischer.com/
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