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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

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