[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On May 18, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Howabout instead of having eth0, eth1, etc. have like home, work, etc. > >the files could then have an extra section, called DEVICE or something, that > You could make a symlink.
Nope, that would start home and eth0 and then you have it setup twice. Normally no harm, but if you have a special up or down script associated with the device that can go wrong. Also you don't want to automatically start "home" when you are at "work". Another paramter, e.g. OPTIONS=default|auto|noauto|user|.. (just like in the fstab) would be needed. That way you could allow any user to ring the modem but not to start/stop eth0. For stuff like "home" and "work" another paramter grouping several interface together would be usefull. /etc/network/home could look like this: GROUP="eth0 eth1 eth2" OPTIONS="noauto" On boot home would not be started, but when used manually eth0, eth1 and eth2 would be affected. May the Source be with you. Goswin