Hello. This bug is particularly dangerous on remote administration scenarios, where the operator will, unexpectedly, get locked out of the box, requiring physical access to the server.
It is expected that "/etc/init.d/networking restart" would actually start again all those interfaces that were already up, if they are available. If you reconfigure an interface to add an IP alias, interfaces will be shut down but will not be brought up again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org