Re: how to ifup -a an addressless interface

[LEVAI Daniel <leva@ecentrum.hu>]

On Thursday 18 June 2009 17.36.29 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:18:33AM +0200, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Can I somehow just edit my interfaces file, so when I run ifup -a, it
> > will only bring up the device, without any addresses configured?
> > (I can not use the static keyword, because then I must provide an address
> > and whatnot, and I can not use the manual keyword either, because then
> > ifup won't bring up the device).
Ah, tricky (didn't see this example mentioned in interfaces(5), however):
 pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up

[...]
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html
[...]
just for the record, more precisely in: 
.../ch05.en.html#_the_manually_switchable_network_configuration

Thanks for the pointer!


Daniel

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