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Bug 625427 - [enh] Support bringing up loopback without ifup on Debian
[enh] Support bringing up loopback without ifup on Debian
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
0.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-07-27 19:27 UTC by Josh Triplett
Modified: 2010-08-03 17:09 UTC
See Also:
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Description Josh Triplett 2010-07-27 19:27:51 UTC 
The Debian backend uses "ifup lo" to bring up the loopback interface.  However, a Debian system need not have ifupdown installed to work (other than the network-manager package depending on it).  Please consider checking for the existence of ifup, and if it doesn't exist, bringing up the loopback interface manually.  This would allow network-manager to suggest or enhance ifupdown (since it can cooperate with ifupdown-configured networks), but not necessarily depend on it.

Thank you.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-07-27 19:38:56 UTC 
reasonable.
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-08-03 16:36:20 UTC 
b9c14047699aa1f5fd26d927c6b108dea2d271c8 (master)
7e87d79de6d1eeeb47c8e43fb44962bce9c70664 (0.8.x)
Comment 3 Josh Triplett 2010-08-03 17:09:51 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> b9c14047699aa1f5fd26d927c6b108dea2d271c8 (master)
> 7e87d79de6d1eeeb47c8e43fb44962bce9c70664 (0.8.x)

Thanks!