The difference between auto and allow-hotplug is the behaviour on boot. When a device is marked as auto, it will be tried to be activated on boot and the boot will wait for the device to come up. Following interface config
----- auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp auto eth2 iface eth2 inet dhcp ----- will cause these plymouth output: ----- waiting for network configuration waiting an additional 60 seconds for network configuration ----- So allow-hotplug is not equivalent to auto and is bug which should be fixed in a SRU. Side note: allow-hotplug works on Debian. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1307429 Title: Existing allow-hotplug devices do not come up To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1307429/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
