Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent

2002-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Jaeger wrote: > - when removing an ethernet card from a pc laptop, the interface goes > away (but does not trigger ifdown). When reinserting it, the > interface does not come back. (One has to manually issue "ifdown > eth0; ifup eth0"). If you're using ifupdown to manage pcmcia inter

Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent

2002-10-11 Thread Bob Hilliard
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, two other things I'm wondering about ifup/down: > > - when an interface is really down (as seen with ifconfig), why does > ifup refuse it's operation saying "device already configured"? It > could determine that Sometimes ifdown will bring

Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent

2002-10-11 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:58:13AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > check this series of commands: Are you sure there's not an old /etc/init.d/network or other startup script that brings the interface up initially using ifconfig? In my experience, when ifup brings up an interface, ifdown brings i