On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:30 am, Nadeem M. Khan wrote: > On 7/19/06, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just curious to know, what do the ifup and ifdown commands do? > > Can they be used? > > ifdown brings down the interface temporarily. The interface would > still go up on next reboot or restart of the network services. > ifup does the opposite..brings up an interface if its not already > up at boot time.
In a debian distro they also execute all scripts in the /etc/network/if-up.d/ and /etc/network/if-down.d/ directories. so you could add scripts in there to automatically do things on ifup / down. Ther is also if-post-down.d / if-pre-up.d directories which do the same after the inerface is up / down. Similarly for ppp. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
