Re: Interface start-up ordering sequence, multiple passes?

[Pekka Savola <pekkas netcore fi>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > The more I think of this, the more interesting this
> > DEPENDSON="<one-interface>"|"default" sounds; the latter would be a
> > general term to look up a default route (or something like that).
> 
> hmm.. but it might not be dependent on the default route - it might 
> be dependent on a specific route. (ie default goes via the ISP. But 
> your 'VPN' or other interface depends on the route for your vpn peer 
> to have been installed by ospfd or somesuch). very tricky really - i 
> dont think going by dependent interfaces is viable - never mind 
> routes.

In case you'd be interested of VPN or the like, you could just put a 
depends-on to the VPN interface (that should be pretty static, in most 
cases, I think).

The default route is a bit more special, as it's typically done using 
different interfaces, sometimes ethX, ipppX, pppX, what have you..

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