Package: netbase
Version: 4.20
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/networking
Tags: patch
It would be useful to add support for ifrename to
/etc/init.d/networking, as described in
/usr/share/doc/ifrename/HOTPLUG.txt.gz:
--- networking-orig Wed Feb 18 13:56:23 2004
+++ networking Fri Feb 20 14:51:06 2004
@@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ case "$1" in
doopt syncookies no
doopt ip_forward no
+ # Optionally remap interface names based on MAC address.
+ # '/sbin/ifrename' is part of wireless-tools package.
+ # /etc/iftab is currently not created by default. Jean II
+ if [ -x /sbin/ifrename ] && [ -r /etc/iftab ]; then
+ echo -n "Remapping network interfaces name: "
+ ifrename -p
+ echo "done."
+ fi
+
echo -n "Configuring network interfaces..."
ifup -a
echo "done."
(I had to change : to ... in the patch, and it applies with fuzz 1 and
an offset of -54 lines)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages netbase depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii ifupdown 0.6.4-4.10 High level tools to configure netw
ii iputils-ping [ping] 3:20020927-2 Tools to test the reachability of
ii netkit-inetd 0.10-10 The Internet Superserver
ii tcpd 7.6.dbs-6 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilit
-- debconf information excluded
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