[Bug 1017166] Re: Unplugged or deactivated ethernet interfaces may not be handled properly
Brian Murray
brian at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 25 18:56:05 UTC 2012
** Changed in: ifupdown (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Title:
Unplugged or deactivated ethernet interfaces may not be handled
properly
Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
If i have a server which has a management-only interface which is
usually down, in versions of Ubuntu before 11.10, I could configure
that ethernet interface in /etc/network/interfaces, and dhclient would
try forever to get an address.
I believe this is a regression that was introduced in the fix for bug
#838968 , where the '-1' parameter was introduced to dhclient3's
invocation in ifupdown.
While I do think we should report errors, we should also retry this
*forever* since it may be the only way a system can be reached *to see
that error*.
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