Passing the network device as argument to the scripts

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I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 dev with ifupdown 0.7.5ubuntu2. Because of this ticket (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1126560) I had the idea that it would be useful if ifupdown passes the related network device as argument to the scripts in /etc/network/*. This would it make easier to debug problems and the scripts could maybe profit from the information for which network device they are running.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Look for $INTERFACE in the environment, that's where we pass the network device name.

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I have tested this and created the script /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/test with the content:

#!/bin/bash

echo "$INTERFACE" >> /tmp/test.log 2>&1

After a reboot /tmp/test.log has just contained 3 empty lines. The variable $INTERFACE was not know at this point for the script.

[Andrej Shadura (andrew.sh)]

It should be IFACE if I remember correctly.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Indeed. It's IFACE. Marking as invalid again.