The new initscripts had a bad effect on network interface startup on my laptop.
It has a bog-standard PCMCIA network card. Whether this is inserted or not, bringing up eth0 now takes an *age*. I don't know what change is causing this (possibly "wait for ifplugd completion in network service"?), but whatever it is, it isn't good. This stage used to take half a second - it now takes about a minute. Another change which is bad for me is that it used to disregard files in this format: ifcfg-xxx.yyy That is, ifcfg files with an extension. Now it doesn't. Since I sometimes use a WLAN card, I have an alternative ifcfg-eth0 file, which I called ifcfg-eth0.wlan, and a backup of the current ifcfg-eth0 file, called ifcfg-eth0.lan. It now tries to bring THESE up on startup, as well, which takes an extra minute each. What was the reason for this change in behaviour? -- adamw
