Re: hotplug and ifup
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:37:45PM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> At Sat, 20 Mar 2004 01:05:51 -0800,
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:23:19PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > In other words, the default is for the interface to be left alone, unless
> > > > the user explicitly configures it to be hotplugged? I suppose this is
> > > > safest for now, but it would be nice if 'auto' applied.
> > >
> > > auto means "bring the interface up on boot"; that's not the same as "bring
> > > the interface up hotplug event". So I don't think that idea's feasible.
> >
> > In an ideal world (and perhaps mostly in a future reality), most network
> > devices will be automatically detected and have their driver loaded by
> > hotplug, as the normal mode of operation. It would be nice if ifupdown
> > integrated well with such a setup.
>
> For the latest version of hotplug, it 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 wifh "ifup ethN=hotplug". In this case, you don't need "auto"
> mark in /etc/network/interfaces to up the network interface at boot time.
Refer to earlier messages in this thread; what you've said is essentially
the same as what I was replying to in the topmost quote above.
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- mdz
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