Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 01:18 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20090520155616.ga29...@bongo.bofh.it> you wrote: > > Does anybody see any downsides to this? > > It does not make sense to me. the network will be stopped after the daemon > if the daemon is confgured with correct dependencies. And even if not, its > a matter of seconds until the host shuts down or reboots which also kills > it. > > We could skip the downing for speedup reasons, but the actual security > implications (host is pingable when shut down) might not be desireable.
* On client computer, if the interface isn't shut-down, the dhcp leases won't be released. * If the network interface isn't shut down, it may not be powered off (I don't know if halt's "-i" is effective, see the manpage) * It may prevents wake-on-lan (actually, some Ethernet seems to require to shut down the interface, whereas some card require the opposite) Don't take my words for granted, regarding the interface power-off. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org