Re: ifupdown -- it ain't so bad

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:00:01PM -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu 04 Sep 2014 at 14:06:28 -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote:
> >
> > > I had experienced some difficulties using ifupdown in the past, I than
> > came
> > > across this while searching the web
> > >
> > http://pureperl.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-debian-ifupdown-package-and.html
> > > my question is, is that still true? or there was updates to the package
> > > since than?
> > >
> > > also what would be a good alternative for service networking restart ?
> >
> > Is what "still true"?
> 
> What this article claims
> http://pureperl.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-debian-ifupdown-package-and.html
> That ifupdown is not reliable. Basicly I see  errors when bringing up my
> vlan interfaces
....

Facts:

ifupdown is mere "important" package.  So you can have system without it
if your required packages does not depend on it.

This is just a blog post by someone.  He does not seem to be active
promoting any package of his.  Besides he puts down the coding style of
ifupdown which I thought is a very elegant one.  If he does not like
ifupdown, I guess other tool may be used.

ifupdown has its share of problem but now it can handle IPv6 too.

It is designed to be very flexible.  Most of problem can be handled
easily by its customization.  Besides, it does not prohbit you to put
init-rc script with ip commend etc.

Osamu