<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">I noticed that I had responded only to shimi and not to the list</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline">...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:10 AM, shimi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux-il@shimi.net" target="_blank">linux-il@shimi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace;display:inline"><br></div>
What about allow-hotplug?<br>
<a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_syntax_of_etc_network_interfaces" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_syntax_of_etc_network_interfaces</a><br></blockquote><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div></span><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace">I tested allow-hotplug. Frankly, it does not seem to do anything useful. E.g., ifup vlanXX sends out DHCP whether or not the Ethernel cable is plugged in or not. Besides, it is only good for fiddling with cables[*], and even in that limited scenario we do not necessarily want hotplug action. Rather, we want to control when interfaces are brought up or down *and* whether or not to request settings from DHCP. <br><br>[*] It is not clear to me that allow-hotplug actually does what it says on the tin (as I understand it). I don't see anything happening when I fiddle with cables. It is not clear to me what it does or what it is supposed to do, and I would be quite uncomfortable switching to allow-hotplug without really comprehensive retesting of *everything* (as opposed to testing starting/stopping DHCP interfaces).<br><br></div><div style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Thanks,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div>Oleg Goldshmidt | <a href="mailto:pub@goldshmidt.org" target="_blank">pub@goldshmidt.org</a></div>
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