ifupdown and --exclude ?

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

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I noticed that the --exclude option was depreciated.  I have a need to keep
lo up.  What is the recommended way of doing this?  Something like "pre-down
/bin/false" ?

I would like to know the opinions from others about not deconfiguring the
network interfaces on shutdown.  I know that they are not deconfigured if
the root is mounted from some type of network filesystem or if there are
still network filesystems mounted.

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