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Re: How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?



On Sun, 22 May 2011 02:11:00 +0100, Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>Marc Haber writes ("How to solve race condition between IPv6 ifup and start of services?"):
>> Is there a widely accepted method to do things any easier? It is
>> clearly not acceptable to have to manually log in to a newly booted
>> server to restart service, neither do I like the idea of changing
>> runlevels five minutes after reboot to kick IPv6 services to life.
>
>I set the machine's address statically; this is usually more
>appropriate for a server anyway.

For a production server, yes. For a test system that will be cloned,
instantiated and thrown away in a second, I'd prefer some kind of
automatism.

Greetings
Marc
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