ifupdown problem

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:33 PM, David Henderson
<dhenderson at digital-pipe.com> wrote:
>> General idea is described here:
>> https://busybox.net/~vda/no_ifup.txt
>
> Looked at it, wouldn't this be the same thing as scripts in
> /etc/network/if-*.d directories?

It won't be the same, and the document explains why.
You did not understand it.
Example #1: the "ifup -a hangs at boot" case
Example #2: "ifup eth0" + pppd in parallel simultaneously upping ppp0.
What will be the default route in "ifup" world?