[BusyBox] ifupdown bug?

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Tue Jun 29 00:55:07 UTC 2004


On Mon Jun 28, 2004 at 04:11:05PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> the first hunk below fixes the buglets -- the wrong string is
> passed to an error message.

Cool thanks.  Your first patch is obviously correct.  Applied.

> the second hunk shows my confusion.  why are mappings disabled
> for the "ifdown" command?  with the stock (disabled) code, i can
> have a mapping for eth0 in place to map it to something else,
> which works correctly for "ifup", but on ifdown it gives an
> "unknown interface" error message.
> 
> can anyone shed any light?

Well, this is mainly there since that is what is done in the
original ifupdown code from Debian -- it will only run the
mappings when bringing up an interface...

 -Erik

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