Bug#620139: insserv: Network facility unexpected behaviour

[Mark Hindley]

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Marc,


Apologies for the extreme delay in replying to this.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:35:46PM +0200, Marc MAURICE wrote:
> As you can see, the script depends on the $network facility.
> When script starts, the IP is configured on the network interface, so daemons can probably bind to it.
> 
> But network is not fully up before a few seconds (link down, and no ping).
> 
> Questions :
> Is this the expected behaviour to have the IP addresses configured but no link?

It depends on how the interface is configured in /etc/network/interfaces.

If you have allow-hotplug, then ifup is asynchronous and the networking
initscripts can't know when the interface is actually ready.

If you want synchronous behaviour, use auto rather than hotplug.

Is this still an issue for you?

Thanks

Mark