On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:22:43PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update "Debia Reference" to etch/lenny era and I wanted > to include description on guess net and ifupdown-extra. As for ifupdown-extra I think it's pretty well covered, you mention the 'network-test' script as well as the hooks for ifupdown. The only thing that might need mentioning is that the errors that ifupdown-extra finds (unreachable gateway, no link, duplicate IP address) are reported either through the standard error or through syslog. The behaviour is configured through /etc/default/network-test and defaults to syslog. This is very useful for headless servers (so you can debug issues which might have happened in the past, for example when it was starting up by looking at syslog) but some people might want to have it print errors in standard output. Also worthwhile commenting that some of these checks slow down a little bit the system bootup since it takes some time to listen for ARP replies to see if somebody is out there with your same IP address. The behaviour is, again, configurable through /etc/default/network-test to reduce the impact. Regards Javier
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