Paul Kelly <pke...@internode.on.net> wrote: > So...here is a proposal for updating various man pages to try help > others who make a similar migration to dhcpleased. It's a bit of a > scattershot approach and the wording can probably be improved, but it is > hopefully consistent with the existing pattern for describing auto > interface configuration, and it at least should prompt a user to > double-check their interface state before they (incorrectly) conclude > that dhcpleased doesn't work on trunk interfaces.
I don't understand where you are going with this type of documentation. Of course the interface has to be up. Interfaces that are down don't participate in networking. It is obvious. We are discussing bringing the interfaces up in a more automatic fashion, and then this won't matter.
