Comment 30 for bug 6841

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:36:26 +0200
From: <email address hidden> (Thomas Hood)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: #256680

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:35, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Thomas Hood wrote:
> >Did the "ifdown lo ; ifup lo" trick work?
> >
> You mean the "ifdown -a ; ifup lo" trick?
>
> It does not work. I was pretty sure of that, but I now
> tested it because you asked again, and it did not help.

No, I mean the trick wherein you do:

    ifdown lo
    ifup lo

just before you do

    ifdown -a

That is: after the change, /etc/init.d/networking contains the
following lines in the "stop" method:

    echo -n "Deconfiguring network interfaces..."
    ifdown lo
    ifup lo
    ifdown -a
    echo "done."

This was a second, different, suggestion from the first one I made.
If you didn't receive that message for some reason then please note
that you can review this whole conversation at
http://bugs.debian.org/256680. The message containing my second
suggestion had i.d. <1088495900.7371.561.camel@thanatos>.

There is a good chance that this second trick will work. If it
works then that provides us with a good reason to get off our
fannies and do something about the order in which "ifdown -a"
brings down interfaces.
--
Thomas