Automatically bringing ethernet interfaces up when the cableis connected

[Chris Ricker]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 15:04, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> > Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > You might be interested by this bug report then:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83705
> > 
> > Well...if we are going to compare bugreports:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103419
> > 
> > -jef
> 
> +1 for getting this implemented for FC2.
> I think it'd be a great treat, but we'll need to be careful about the
> routing if you bring up the device if wireless or something else is
> already up.

This needs to be configurable. Otherwise, it could cause problems on laptops
where bringing up network interfaces during boots causes lock-ups (ALi / ATI
/ AMD chipsets seem to do this, or at least my two do)

later,
chris