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  1. Bug #63664
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 63664

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

ifup will only call ifconfig if the interface is statically configured - see line 3924 of ifupdown.nw. If it's using dhcp, then dhclient will do that. There's never been any requirement for an interface to be up before dhclient is run on it.