Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
It was done upstream to support vlan. See /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt for details. -- Fred - May the source be with you
