Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > Then, finally, interfaces only go UP if users do `ifconfig ... up' > or hostname.* contain the word "up". Otherwise they stay DOWN. > > This would be a dead simple thing to reason.
Yeah it is so reasonable in fact why don't we add a chunk to the top of netstart to force all interfaces people configured by hand down!?!?!?!?! Or hey force them all The chain of proposals written in these emails are not going to happen, because netstart and hostname.* are a CONVENIENCE and may not be authoritative wrt the actual configuration. At boottime they are close to authoritative, but netstart can be run later. I don't know why you have gone on this bizzare tangent that "everything must change". No, things don't need to change.
