Bug#765400: networking.service started too early - PCMCIA NIC not brought up

[Michael Biebl]

control: reassign -1 ifupdown

Am 14.10.2014 um 20:54 schrieb Charles-François Natali:
>> Please attach /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> Attached.
> Note that eth0 doesn't have cable plugged in and should probably be
> commented out.
> 

This is ultimately a limitation/design choice of ifupdown, specifically
of "auto" interfaces.

To bring up your interface race-free, i.e. when your hardware is
actually plugged in and available, you'd have to use allow-hotplug, as
this activates the interface via udev. allow-hotplug does have other
downsides though.

I think, this is ultimately only fixable by ifupdown becoming a daemon
which listens for uevents and configures the interfaces when they show up.

For jessie I suggested a workaround in [1], which runs "udevadm settle"
in /etc/init.d/networking, so makes it more likely to succeed.

I'm re-assigning this bug to ifupdown, as it is not directly related to
systemd. It should probably be merged with [1].

It would probably be helpful, if you can test the patch from [2]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766943#124
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766943#129
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