Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/16/11 1:49 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> I'm not sure what the goal *should* be. :-) Does it make sense to >> try to clean up completely in this kind of setup? Maybe or maybe >> not. >> >> I do think it's least *surprising* to only undo the effects of the >> start script, though. For whatever that's worth. > > I do think we're getting a little overcomplicated here. Let's try to > simplify expectations. Here's what I expect (and I *think* this is > reasonable - you tell me :-) ) > > When I run the equivalent of /etc/init.d/network stop: > > All devices configured to start ONBOOT are shut down,
Yeah (subject to what DJ said as well, though). > any addresses assigned to them are removed (this of course means that > if there is a running dhcp service in the background, it won't add > any addresses to the device until I restart the network service). Hmm. I guess this does make sense if you consider "/etc/rc/init.d/network stop" to be the equivalent of "tear down all networking". And I suppose that's not unreasonable. At machine shutdown time especially, I'd expect everything to stop. This does, however, mean that extra manual configuration will be lost on an "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" run, and that I think I'd find a bit surprising. Obviously this is hard to fix, though; maybe another param could be provided to the stop mode to prevent flushing IPs, etc.? That still seems like a bit of a hack though. Or maybe we just go with it. That's probably not too bad. :-) Anybody know how other distros do it? I can't figure out what Debian's ifdown binary is supposed to do (its source is *extremely* obfuscated, being built from a texinfo file, and containing a file parser)...
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