On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 09:28:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> assigning an IP address does an implicit up
>
> otherwise, it doesn't happen
>
> in hindsight, not having any implicit up would probably be better, but
> obviously not reasonable to change now.
Yes, I agree but it is weird in
matthew green writes:
>> I needed to ifconfig up the interface being used by hostapd, once I did
>
> don't feel bad. i don't understand the rules about when things are
> up or not by default and it seems that this problem happens about
> every 5 years for me...
Indeed.
I think the rules are:
