Bug 57744

Summary:	net.agent blindly runs /sbin/ifup interface
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Britton <gbritton>
Component:	hotplug	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	notting, rvokal
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Description Gerald Britton 2001-12-20 17:03:28 UTC

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Description of problem:
The kernel runs /sbin/hotplug on netdevice (de)registration.  The hotplug
package runs
/etc/hotplug/net.agent which blindly runs /sbin/ifup on the interface
causing the network to
go active unexpectly when modules are loaded.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /sbin/ifdown eth0
2. /sbin/modprobe -r eth0
3. /sbin/ifconfig eth0  (or.. /sbin/ifdown eth0)

Actual Results:  Network is brought active by /sbin/ifup eth0

Expected Results:  Network should have remained unchainged.

Additional info:

This bug may be best fixed with a combination of changes to
the hotplug package and to the initscripts package (and perhaps others).
It could perhaps provide a separate hotplug config flag in addition to the
onboot
flag.  There are a lot of cases where the hotplug would be interacting with
the
initscripts though.

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-01-14 17:32:13 UTC

Need adressing... ONHOTPLUG=yes/no?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-11 14:36:35 UTC

You can set ONHOTPLUG=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXXX, as of
hotplug-2002_04_01-17.