Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
Greetings to everybody on this list, it's my first post here.
ifupdown, the official Debian network configuration tool, is great for
configuring interfaces like Ethernet adapters. However, as time goes,
more and more use cases occur which are hard to fulfill with ifupdown as
it is. My guess is that it's time to rethink the philosophy behind
ifupdown and give it some natural development.
Beyond the need to potentially rethink its development is the existence
of a rather obscure and frustrating bug #253472. The short of this bug
is the ifup calls dhclient with the -e switch. This means that if at
any point in the interfaces life the dhclient is unable to acquire a
functional IP lease for the interface, dchclient will error and exit.
This can leave a system completely unreachable.
A check of the latest ifupdown sources in unstalbe (0.6.7) shows that
the use of the -e switch is still present.
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Jamin W. Collins
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