Re: Bug#824884: netbase: should not recommend ifupdown
On Tue, May 24, 2016, at 10:01, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2016 at 09:08:11 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Whatever we do, we absolutely must bring up a fully configured loopback
> > interface by default.
>
> Happily, our default init system already does that.
We need to ensure any non-default ones also do that before we drop
ifupdown from "recommends", because ifupdown + default
/etc/network/interfaces is the fallback that ensures the loopback will
be up.
Hopefully we already do that, but it doesn't look like it from a fast
look at a jessie workstation.
> systemd's authors see the lo device as being less like networking and
> more like part of the "API" of a Linux machine, so pid 1 sets it up
Which actually makes a lot of sense, as it is in fact a critical
networking component on any modern Unix userland. Drop/bring down the
loopback, and the world breaks in surprising ways, be it in Linux, the
BSDs, or Solaris.
> using. That seems like a reasonable approach to me.
It is reasonable, yes.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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