On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:59:03PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
| On Monday 07 January 2002 7:20 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
|
| > I wonder why you have S39ifupdown, but I have S40networking?
| > "S40networking start" basically only does "ifup -a". Likewise,
| > "stop" just does "ifdown -a".
|
| I have both - ifupdown just clears clears /etc/network/ifstate
|
| Not sure why its needed or used
That is where ifup/ifdown stores the current state of the interfaces.
| - strikes me as a bit naughty to write into /etc
I think it is, since sometimes it gets confused. Take, for example,
the setup posted on the list a while back. There's a script that
checks for the presence of a phyiscal link and only attempts to bring
up the (dhcp) interface if a link exists. If a link does not exist,
this works until you plug in the link and try 'ifup'. The ifstate
file has incorrect data in it.
-D
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