Don Dutile (ddutile@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On 06/20/2011 05:09 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > I'm considering drop the network hotplug support from the 'network' > > service. This is the code that would automatically run ifup when a new > > network device appeared, if there was a configuration for it. > > > > The supported solution would be to use NetworkManager for these usage > > cases (or wicd, or netplugd, or conman...) Alternatively, just run > > ifup yourself. > > > > Currently, this would happen in the following cases: > > 1. USB and/or expresscard hotplugged ethernet/wireless > > 2. PCI hotswap of a network card > > 3. Runtime addition of network interfaces in virtual system > > 4. Admin manually removes and reloads a driver module > > > > For #1, those systems are generally better served by NM. > > For #2, this is something with such heavy admin interaction that I > > would suspect that it would be preferred to handle it manually. (Also, > > swapping hardware likely invalidates the configuration in any case.) > > For #3, you're unlikely to have a configuration written for a freshly > > available device. > sorry, I don't understand this statement.... > but has me worried for virt hot add/remove of assigned devices Essentially, hot-adding a virtual device would not bring the device up automatically if you're using the old network service; you'd have to run 'ifup' by hand. > > For #4, bringing up the device automatically can cause more issues > > than it solves. (We've seen this happen for vlans, for example.) > This is done all the time (on KVM hosts) to take down PF driver & load > PF+VF drivers for SRIOV-capable devices. This would be a different device with a different hardware address, correct? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
