On 04/29/2012 04:18 PM, Miles Bader wrote: > Stephan Seitz <stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net> writes: >>> Isn't mounting filesystems, which can depend on the network, part of >>> the boot process? >> >> Yes, but how do you check if the network is configured and operational? >> - when the link is up? >> - when the IP address is configured (how do you check this with >> IPv6?)? What are you doing if more than one IP address is configured >> for this NIC or more than one NIC is available? >> - when the switch accepts traffic on the port you are connected to? >> - when the router/firewall accepts traffic from your IP address? >> >> No event based init system will solve these problems when you have >> dependencies outside the box you are booting. The local admin has to >> check if all timings are right and must adjust them if they are not >> fitting. > > Er, what? Please don't throw out silly strawmen...
Stephan's points are valid. Just having a link on your favourite cisco does not mean that you are allowed to send packets anywhere yet. Getting a ipv6 address via radvd does not mean that you are able too access your nfsv4 server (and the other way round...). And so on. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f9d5093.7000...@bzed.de