[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] NETDOWN variable in sysvinit

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Petter,

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org> writes:

> Format: 1.7
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:34:37 +0200
> Source: sysvinit
> Binary: sysv-rc sysvinit-utils sysvinit initscripts
> Architecture: source i386 all
> Version: 2.86.ds1-23
> Distribution: experimental
> Urgency: low
> Maintainer: Debian sysvinit maintainers <pkg-sysvinit-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Changed-By: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>
> Description:
>  initscripts - Scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
>  sysv-rc    - System-V-like runlevel change mechanism
>  sysvinit   - System-V-like init utilities
>  sysvinit-utils - System-V-like utilities
> Closes: 388244 388417
> Changes:
>  sysvinit (2.86.ds1-23) experimental; urgency=low
>  .
>    [...]
>    * Add new halt option NETDOWN to make it easier to enable
>      wake-on-lan. (Closes: #388244)

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.

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


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