Interface start-up ordering sequence, multiple passes?

[Jim Wildman]

Why not add it to ifup-local?  It is not created by default, but it is
called from ifup-post.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When designing an IPv6 extension to initscripts, we came across this one 
> particularly knotty problem.
> 
> There seem to be no way to select the order in which the interfaces would 
> be brought up by e.g. "network start", except by naming hacks.  (There are 
> also this, nowadays smaller, problem of on-demand dial-up interfaces..)
> 
> There seems to be no facility to run a script "in the second pass" i.e., 
> after all the interfaces have been brought up.
> 
> Both of these facilities would seem to be useful, espcially being able to 
> say "run these commands after interface X has been brought up".
> 
> Have I missed something, or is this impossible at the moment (without
> gluing more stuff in init.d/network)?  Would such mechanisms be useful in
> other contexts as well?
> 
> (This could be achieved, it seems, at least by using an '/sbin/ifup xxx
> 2ndpass' argument, and only specified commands would be run when doing the
> second pass.)
> 
> Thoughts, ideas, comments?
> 
> 

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