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Re: hotplug and ifup



On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 06:32:34PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:49, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> > At Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:06:44 +0100,
> > Thomas Hood wrote:
> > > At Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:37:45, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> > > > ... the latest version of hotplug ... finds pci devices at
> > > > boot time, so if you configure to use "mapping hotplug" in
> > > > /etc/network/interfaces, /etc/rcS.d/S39hotplug will load
> > > > kernel drivers and will bring network interfaces up with
> > > > "ifup ethN=hotplug".
> > > 
> > > Too bad networking is only initialized at S40!
> > > 
> > > This bug didn't exist when hotplug used the /etc/nohotplug
> > > mechanism to delay the processing of hotplug events at boot.
> > > Now that that mechanism has been eliminated, the bug would
> > > seem to be back.  Or is the race rectified in some other way?
> 
> Answering my own question ...  What has been done is that the
> hotplug link has been moved from S36 to S40 (not S39).  The 
> question now is: Is that enough?

On my system, I was relying hotplug started by discover probing to start
network.  I do not use auto stanza.  This was working until recently.

Last few weeks, the sytem was very erratic in booting.  I usually booted
to single user mode and configured network since I did not have any
network other than lo or sometimes no lo.

I think using auto stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is one solution but
I miss probing with discover and getting network running....  was this
non-supported way of using discover?

Osamu



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