On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > OK. The Ubuntu change documents that as > > The above change also means that manual interfaces will now be > brought up and down (as many users expected until now) > > which sounds plausible to me. However, I don't really know the > background of that change, so if you think it's inappropriate in > Debian then I'll keep it as an Ubuntu delta.
I think it is inappropriate regardless of which distribution you use.
The whole point of a manual interface is that you configure it yourself.
It migt not even be a network interface as known to the kernel, so an "ip
link set dev $INTERFACE up" command might fail.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>
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