[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] NETDOWN variable in sysvinit

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Reinhard Tartler]
> Can you explain me why the NETDOWN variable defaults to 'yes'?
> What's the problem with setting it to 'no' and letting the kernel to
> do that job.

Sure.  It defaults to yes because it was the original behaviour, and I
did not know the consequence of changing it.

> AFAIUI it breaks iscsi and wol (cc'ing nobse as he seems to be
> experimenting with iscsi these days).

I do not know the details of wake-on-lan, and nothing at all about
iscsu, so I do not know how the default should be for those.  I once
got the impression that WOL behaviour differed from driver to driver,
and that it was hard to know if the interface should be taken down or
not to get WOL working.  I have no idea if this is os was true, nor if
it has changed.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen