Bug 720081 - MinorMod: Network Interfaces: LINKDELAY parameter needs to be added to "Interface Configuration Files"
Summary: MinorMod: Network Interfaces: LINKDELAY parameter needs to be added to "Inter...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Deployment_Guide
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaromir Hradilek
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Blocks: 720382
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Reported: 2011-07-09 02:54 UTC by Maxwell Spangler
Modified: 2011-12-06 15:30 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-12-06 15:30:50 UTC
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Description Maxwell Spangler 2011-07-09 02:54:21 UTC 
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,
Comment 2 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-07-11 14:37:06 UTC 
Many thanks for reporting this!
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