Bug 2076

Summary: /sbin/ifup doesn't recognise interface initialisation failure
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Sittampalam, Ganesh <ganesh.sittampalam>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Sittampalam, Ganesh 1999-04-09 01:26:38 UTC 
The /sbin/ifup script contains this line to detect whether
an interface works:
/sbin/ifconfig ${REALDEVICE} 2>&1 | grep -s "unknown
interface" > /dev/null

The current version of ifconfig doesn't return a line with
"unknown interface" in it if an interface fails to
initialise, so this isn't very helpful.

------- Email Received From  "Ganesh Sittampalam,Computing Laboratory,83512,86765" <ganesh.sittampalam.ac.uk> 04/08/99 21:30 -------
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-09 14:26:59 UTC 
this has been fixed in initscripts-4.01-2.