RFC: new modes in network-manager 0.7 + ifupdown

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:58:28PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ke, 2008-10-08 kello 13:26 +0200, Oliver Grawert kirjoitti:
> > One of the conclusions was that we need to make sure dhcpd's
> > initscript
> > starts late enough past S30 unless we want to omit the self test feature
> > (which would be a bad idea imho) but due to the fact that NM can also
> > dynamically change the contents of /etc/network/interfaces and bring
> > interfaces down/up with ifupdown, a call to the initscript in
> > if-up.d/if-down.d would be necessary.

> Would it not be more sensible to only start dhcpd when interfaces are
> brought up? After all, there is no guarantee that there even is a
> physical NIC installed in the system when it boots, but one might be
> added later by the user (e.g., via USB or PCMCIA).

Yes, but that's not the model we've inherited from 25-or-so years of Unix
runlevel handling.

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