On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > After putting the above line in sysctl.conf (and removing my preup() > function), everything worked as expected except that I had to manually > start the interface with the command "/etc/init.d/net.eth2 start". > > Google told me to fix that by using rc-update to add net.eth2 to the > default runlevel. > > Everything's tickety-boo now, but I don't remember have to do that > last step in the past when I added a network interface -- all I had to > do was create the symlink from net.<whatever> to net.lo. > > Is the rc-update runlevel stuff new?
AFAIR you've had to do it that way forever... but it's not exactly something I set up every day. Maybe if you used ifplugd, wicd, networkmanager etc. it works differently.
