[ale] Hotplug to load network interfaces

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 02:56:57 EDT 2005


Hrmm, I haven't seen that problem on my router but I also haven't rebooted it.

On 6/11/05, Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> I don't think so but I have a lot to learn. It seems as though Debian is
> making a move from the auto "interface name" to using hotplug to
> configure the interface. Basically I have read that I need to add to the
> "interfaces" file:
> 
> mapping hotplug
>         script echo
> 
> What prompted all this is that for some reason eth0 will never come up on
> boot. It is configured via ppp. It "used" to work great. Now I have to
> "ip link set eth0 up" and then "pon dsl-provider" to get my connection
> up. The eth1 interface loads just fine without intervention. This is a
> server for dsl on other computers so this is just not working right now.
> Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated. Anyway all the info I have
> read and tried thus far has not worked at all. This is on a desktop
> Debian Sarge system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Seymour
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:14:27PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > Do you  mean ifplugd?
> >
> > On 6/10/05, Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > > Is anyone here familiar with how to set up hotplug to load the network
> > > interfaces? Debian made this change recently, it appears, and I would
> > > like to learn how to use it. The hotplug homepage and the man pages have
> > > not produced anything for me.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Jim Seymour
> > >
> 
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