On Apr 18, 2012, at 6:01 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Not sure I completely understand the context of your question, Russell, > but ntpd explicitly drops eth0 from the routing table. The result is the > same as root running 'ifconfig eth0 down'.
No, it's not. NTPd is simply reporting to the log file that eth0 is no longer valid, and it's removing it as the interface that it will use for querying ntp servers. ntp does not, and will not bring down or bring up a network interface. ntpd is at the same level as a mail server. It's a server application that sends and receives packets. It does however, keep track of available/valid network interfaces, and can be configured to use different ntp sources, depending on what interface is available. So it makes sense that it takes note of eth0 not being valid. It makes no sense to assume that ntpd would in any way bring up or down an interface. Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
