[ale] Hotplug to load network interfaces

[Jim Seymour]

I don't think so but I have a lot to learn. It seems as though Debian is
making a move from the auto "interface name" to using hotplug to
configure the interface. Basically I have read that I need to add to the
"interfaces" file:

mapping hotplug
	script echo

What prompted all this is that for some reason eth0 will never come up on
boot. It is configured via ppp. It "used" to work great. Now I have to
"ip link set eth0 up" and then "pon dsl-provider" to get my connection
up. The eth1 interface loads just fine without intervention. This is a
server for dsl on other computers so this is just not working right now.
Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated. Anyway all the info I have
read and tried thus far has not worked at all. This is on a desktop
Debian Sarge system.

Thanks,

Jim Seymour

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:14:27PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Do you  mean ifplugd?
> 
> On 6/10/05, Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > Is anyone here familiar with how to set up hotplug to load the network
> > interfaces? Debian made this change recently, it appears, and I would
> > like to learn how to use it. The hotplug homepage and the man pages have
> > not produced anything for me.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Jim Seymour
> > 

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