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  • From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] hotplug net.agent
  • Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:12:32 -0500 (CDT)



On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Eric Sandall wrote:

> Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>:
> > the latest version of hotplug has a new script, net.agent, which attempts
> > to
> >
> > bring up the network, but our network script has already run, so I see
> > messages such as 'eth0 already up', and various failures during
> > closedown.
> >
> >
> > should the hotplug spell disable the smgl network script, or disable the
> > net.agent, or modify net.agent in some way?
> >
> >
> > Regards, Treeve
>
> Perhaps we should modify net.agent to ignore any devices we have configured
> (/etc/sysconfig/network/*.dev) and the variable "INTERFACES" in
> /etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.conf. That way the net.agent /should/ only do its
> thing on
> devices that aren't otherwise taken care of.

Not sure on hotplug, but ifplugd uses ifup/ifdown to bring up and down the
interfaces, which requires the /etc/sysconfig/network/*.dev.

-casey





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