2012/8/30 Wouter Verhelst wrote:

>> How do you suppose it's possible to undo arbitrary network
>> configuration done by arbitrary set of tools when there's no central
>> place to hold such information (and can't possibly be)?
>
> Actually, the kernel holds that information. Any tool can just query the
> kernel for information, and decide what to do with what's returned.

Not sure. Will it work for user-space configuration too? I.e. `ifdown`
may have have to stop `dhclient` and `wpa_supplicanf`. Is it possible
to detect such cases automatically?

-- 
  Serge


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