On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote: > [*] Without discussing the actual requirements, consider a trivial > example. Suppose you have several DHCP VLANs configured on eth1, and suppose > that for various operational reasons the eth1 link may occasionally be down. > What happens in such a case is that dhclient keeps trying, for all VLANs and > for a long time, before giving up. You don't want this to keep a machine > from booting, to keep other interfaces from starting, etc. One would want to > detect this early (e.g., using ethtool or similar) and not even attempt to > bring up DHCP interfaces. [In my mind, this is a bug in dhclient, but this > is beside the point...] >
What about allow-hotplug? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_basic_syntax_of_etc_network_interfaces -- Shimi _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
