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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> After putting the above line in sysctl.conf (and removing my preup() |
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> function), everything worked as expected except that I had to manually |
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> start the interface with the command "/etc/init.d/net.eth2 start". |
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> Google told me to fix that by using rc-update to add net.eth2 to the |
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> default runlevel. |
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> Everything's tickety-boo now, but I don't remember have to do that |
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> last step in the past when I added a network interface -- all I had to |
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> do was create the symlink from net.<whatever> to net.lo. |
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> Is the rc-update runlevel stuff new? |
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AFAIR you've had to do it that way forever... but it's not exactly |
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something I set up every day. |
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Maybe if you used ifplugd, wicd, networkmanager etc. it works differently. |
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