On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 21:38 +0100, J.D. Hood wrote: > The locking that ifupdown does (to serialize running instances) is > what guarantees that there will be deadlock whenever "ifup ethx" > leads to another "ifup ethx". Yes, of course. Sorry. Okay, then this is a problem. Could hotplug perhaps check if the interface is being brought up and abort in that case? -- Pelle