On Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 23:32:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:15:57 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > As far as I understood, you now start ifplugd using the associated > > > net.* init script. Openrc will detect that ifplugd is installed and > > > then wait until a cable is plugged, plus starting an instance > > > listening on the device. > > > > No, this is not how ifplugd worked, for as long as I can remember. I > > never started the interface, or had to start ifplugd by an init.d > > script or manually. > > It may not be how you used it, but that is how ifplugd (or netplug) is > supposed to be used with openrc. It detects whether ifplugd or netplug is > installed when the interface is started up and starts it up to monitor > the interface using the correct options. It's been that way fr a lot of > years and was documented, I think in the comments in the net.* scripts. > > Your approach may have worked in the past but it was unsupported, now it > appears that it doesn't work.
Thank you Neil, I just tried netplug and indeed behaves the same as ifplugd - one has to start the interface before netplug will configure a connection. Interestingly, there is a difference between netplug and ifplugd. ifplugd when started by hand, will initialise and configure a NIC. netplug will not. It requires that the interface has been enabled before it does anything. -- Regards, Mick
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