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Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?



On Monday 10 March 2003 16:39, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
[snip]
> I think this problem would go away if ifup would actually ask the kernel
> if an interface is configured.

Except that asking to the kernel won't tell you which mapping is in use for 
the interface (see mapping stanza in interfaces(5))

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