Interface start-up ordering sequence, multiple passes?
Pekka Savola
pekkas at netcore.fi
Thu Sep 18 07:00:20 UTC 2003
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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