Bug#806949: ifupdown: some tweaks to networking.service

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Guus Sliepen 

> offline() {
> 	ip -4 r s | grep -q ^default && return 1
> 	ip -6 r s | grep -q ^default && return 1
> 	return 0
> }

As a default, this is fine. It can't be the only way to do it, though.
(I have hosts with a full routing table and hence no default route, and
I have hosts where the default route is not in the local table, but in
the default table.

[...]

> So network-online.target is very ill-defined, and I'd rather not see
> anything depending on it, but if we have to, I'd like something that is
> as conservative as possible.

I think we should have something that's fairly conservative, yes.  «As
possible» is too strict.  We shouldn't try calling home by default, for
instance.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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