On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Nathan Coulson wrote:

> [I dont like this suggestion] We could use /run to keep track of what
> interfaces are up/down, but that would add more logic then I think our
> scripts should have...
> [nor this one] An alternative is to add more code to ipv4-static to
> detect if that IP Address is on the interface before removing it...
> 
> otherwise two choices
> 
> as xinglp says,  if we started it up on startup, we will try to stop
> it on shutdown.  Otherwise we'll leave things be.
> or what we have now,  stop all network devices, regardless if they've
> been brought up or not.

It is possible that I missed the rationale, but can someone _please_ explain 
(or point me to existing discussion) why extra effort was taken to rewrite the 
bootscripts instead of switching to the LSB bootscripts where DJ solved all 
these problems already, and where you get a standardized framework for free?

JH
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