Bug 723852

Summary: MinorMod: Network Interfaces: LINKDELAY parameter needs to be added to "Interface Configuration Files"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Component: deployment-guideAssignee: Eliska Slobodova <eslobodo>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Christopher Antila <christopher>
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Version: develCC: kwade, maxwell.spangler, zach
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Added the LINKDELAY directive none

Description Jaromir Hradilek 2011-07-21 11:58:10 UTC 
For Fedora 15, the correct link is as follows:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html#s2-networkscripts-interfaces-eth0

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #720081 +++

Description of problem:

A very useful feature of the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth command is the LINKDELAY parameter that can be added to each NIC's ifcfg-ethX file.  This command delays bringing up the NIC for x seconds and successfully provides work-arounds for NICs that need a delay.  This feature exists in RHEL 5.x and RHEL 6.x but does not seem to be recorded in the documentation so some users may miss this.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 5.x, RHEL 6.x

I went to this page looking for the feature and found it missing:

http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html

Cheers,

--- Additional comment from jhradile on 2011-07-11 10:37:06 EDT ---

Many thanks for reporting this!
Comment 1 Eliska Slobodova 2011-07-21 15:38:38 UTC 
Created attachment 514223 [details]
Added the LINKDELAY directive
Comment 2 Eliska Slobodova 2011-07-21 15:40:30 UTC 
Fixed in commit bf1ed093eb0c41f1a7c23172d3a487178391991f.

See the attached patch in comment 1.
Comment 3 Christopher Antila 2011-07-25 18:55:08 UTC 
Looks good to me.