A pcmcia network card will be brought up even if network is stopped! This could impose a security risk if one starts into runlevel 1 and starts pcmcia to access say a pcmcia cdrom. Then the network card will be started unintentionally as well (without ipchains/iptables started!) The following patch should do the trick, but for some reason the card is still brought up (even if you rm /etc/pcmcia/network)!? --- network.orig Fri Dec 29 11:34:13 2000 +++ network Fri Dec 29 11:44:18 2000 @@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ case "${action:?}" in 'start') - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ifcfg-${device} + if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/network ] + then + /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ifcfg-${device} + fi ;; 'stop') /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown ifcfg-${device}
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release
bill, should we change this? w/ the new hotplug stuff it's a larger question
We should probably change that in hotplug, yes.
Should be fixed in hotplug-2001_02_14-12. Try them at http://people.redhat.com/teg/
(which you definitely should use on a much newer beta...)